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
My Father’s Accent	Kaveh Akbar	2021
It’s a Long Way	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
From the Dark Tower	Countee Cullen	1922
Sage #3	Marilyn Chin	2020
Salutations to a Mouse	Marsden Hartley	1920
Lightning	Witter Bynner	1920
The Revolt of Mother	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Migration	Jenny George	2020
Octopus Empire	Marilyn Nelson	2019
The Late Cold War	Brenda Hillman	2019
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson	Robin Coste Lewis	2017
Still Waiting	Harryette Mullen	2019
From “Stray Birds” [233—237]	Rabindranath Tagore	1921
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
Song of the Open Road, 11	Walt Whitman	1891
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
Antisocial Media	Jennifer Militello	2018
To Life	Thomas Hardy	2018
Prayer with Miscarriage / Grant Us the Ruined Grounds	Geffrey Davis	2018
In Brazil	Tracy K. Smith	2018

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