Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
Again Later	Martha Collins	2020
Lightning	Witter Bynner	1920
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border	Suji Kwock Kim	2019
Map to the Stars	Adrian Matejka	2019
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
Thinking of Frost	Major Jackson	2019
In the gloaming, in the roiling night	Ruth Awad	2019
Amores (VIII)	E. E. Cummings	1923
NDN Homopoetics	Billy-Ray Belcourt	2019
Departed Days	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1877
Lo! as a careful housewife run to catch (Sonnet 143)	William Shakespeare	1904
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid (Sonnet 79)	William Shakespeare	1904
If there be nothing new, but that which is (Sonnet 59)	William Shakespeare	1904
Then and Now	Thomas Hardy	2018
The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice	Brenda Hillman	2018
Taking Out the Trash	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2018
Desire	Helen Hoyt	1917
The Vanishing Red	Robert Frost	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018

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