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
Sage #3	Marilyn Chin	2020
On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature	Philip Freneau	1815
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
Foley Catheter	Kimberly Johnson	2020
The Belladonna of Sadness	Sally Wen Mao	2019
Fractured	Hali Sofala-Jones	2019
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter	Mary Jean Chan	2019
The End	Hélder Faife	2019
The Sicilian’s Tale; The Bell of Atri	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1863
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
Prompts (for High School Teachers Who Write Poetry)	Dante Di Stefano	2019
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Ultrasound: Your Picture	George David Clark	2018
Christmas Morn	Anna de Brémont	2018
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: (Sonnet 153)	William Shakespeare	1904
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)	William Shakespeare	1904
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said (Sonnet 56)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thaw	Edward Thomas
A Shropshire Lad, XII	A. E. Housman	1922

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