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
To Prisoners	Gwendolyn Brooks	2018
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose]	A. E. Housman	2017
All I Ever Wanted	Katie Ford	2017
Lament	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Red Delicious	Jerome Ellison Murphy	2022
The Vanity of Human Wishes	Samuel Johnson	2018
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Thanksgiving	Edgar Guest	1917
My Lost Youth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
A Lady	Amy Lowell	2017
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
Tell Me Something Good	Ocean Vuong	2015
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	William Carlos Williams	1922
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
The Language of the Birds	Richard Siken	2011
The Kiss	Sara Teasdale	1917
Anecdote of the Jar	Wallace Stevens	1954
The Snowfall Is So Silent	Miguel de Unamuno	1976

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