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
Deep in the Quiet Wood	James Weldon Johnson	2015
The Buttonhook	Mary Jo Salter	2014
Arabic	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
On the Circuit	W. H. Auden	1965
Adonais, 49–52, [Go thou to Rome]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1821
Revolutionary Letter #3	Diane di Prima	1971
The Comfort of Darkness	Galway Kinnell	2018
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love	June Jordan	2017
Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County	Jay Parini	2016
The Voice	Thomas Hardy	1915
When Malindy Sings	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1901
Medusa	Patricia Smith	1992
Evening Solace	Charlotte Brontë	2016
To a Friend who sent me some Roses	John Keats	1817
A Cry from an Indian Wife	Emily Pauline Johnson	1900
What It Must Have Felt Like	Ada Limón	2020
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget	Anis Mojgani	2019
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose]	A. E. Housman	2017
I Ask My Mother to Sing	Li-Young Lee	2017
Calculations	Brenda Cárdenas	2016

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