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
Mont Blanc	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1816
Song of Myself, 26	Walt Whitman	1891
The Tuft of Flowers	Robert Frost	1915
Imitation	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Autumn	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
From “Fast Speaking Woman, Part 1”	Anne Waldman	2016
15¢ Futures	Marilyn Nelson	2015
At Night	Yone Noguchi	1920
The Song of Hiawatha [Excerpt]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1855
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain]	François Villon	1965
My Mother Would Be a Falconress	Robert Duncan	1968
The Letter	Amy Lowell	1915
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16	Homer	1975
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email	Emily Jungmin Yoon	2026
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky	Joy Priest	2023
A Distant Song	John Gould Fletcher	1913
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century	Herman Melville	2019
High Dangerous	Catherine Pierce	2019
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
Black Swan	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	2018

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