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
Autumn Passage	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
Now That We Have Tasted Hope	Khaled Mattawa	2016
Morning Joy	Claude McKay	2015
Death and the City	Rowan Ricardo Phillips	2015
Enough	Ellen Bass	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Song in My Heart	Diane Seuss	2015
On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm	William Wordsworth	1820
Compensation	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
Waiting for Rain	Ellen Bass	2013
Aunt Helen	T. S. Eliot	1915
The Scholar-Gypsy	Matthew Arnold	1853
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
To Sleep	Henri Cole	2007
In cold spring air	Reginald Gibbons	2008
A Table in the Wilderness	Li-Young Lee	2001
Dead Fires	Jessie Redmon Fauset	1922
Eating the Bones	Ellen Bass	2007

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