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
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty	Thomas James	2008
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1819
The Wishing Tree	Kathleen Jamie	2007
Faults	Sara Teasdale	1917
Sex	Michael Ryan	2004
To Blossoms	Robert Herrick	1648
the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls	E. E. Cummings	1923
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
Epilogue	Robert Lowell	1975
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Always on the Train	Ruth Stone	2003
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror	Agha Shahid Ali	1991
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)	William Shakespeare	1609
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered	Cornelius Eady	2026
And the Place Was Water	Nicholas Gulig	2024
The Sonnet in Drag	Chris Watkins	2025

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