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
Breathe. As in. (shadow)	Rosamond S. King	2019
[Things feel partial. My love for things is partial. Mikel on his last legs, covered]	Diane Seuss	2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
OBIT [Friendships]	Victoria Chang	2017
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief (Sonnet 42)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)	William Shakespeare	1904
Self-Portrait with Eraser	Andrea Cohen	2018
The Funeral of Youth: Threnody	Rupert Brooke	2018
At a Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
In the Gold Room	Oscar Wilde	2018
This Sunday in Ordinary Time	Peter Twal	2018
Natural History	Sam Hamill	2018
I Want to Save This Whale	Lisa Olstein	2018
Turtle Soup	Marilyn Chin	1994
How Like the Sea	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1902
September	Helen Hunt Jackson	1886
A Summer Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]	John Keats	2017
Night Falls Like a Button	Chen Chen	2017

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