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
Militants to Certain Other Women	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
The Murderess	Alice Cary	1903
Yesterday and To-morrow	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
Einstein’s Mother	Tracy K. Smith	2020
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right	Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz	2017
In Autumn	Mark Irwin	2017
The Captive Dove	Anne Brontë	2017
what the dead know by heart	Donte Collins	2016
Mercy	Tyehimba Jess	2016
Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick	Derrick Austin	2015
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK	Bianca Stone	2015
Attention Deficit	Katy Lederer	2014
Sonnet-To Science	Edgar Allan Poe	1829
Before the Birth of One of Her Children	Anne Bradstreet	2013
Moonlight	Sara Teasdale	1920
The Tinajera Notebook	Forrest Gander	2011
Testy Pony	Zachary Schomburg	2010
Patience	Kay Ryan	2000
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–14	Homer	1715
The Baite	John Donne	1633

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