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
Ghazal	Tracy K. Smith	2018
A Patch of Old Snow	Robert Frost	2018
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing	Walt Whitman	1892
A Man’s World	Tracy K. Smith	2018
breaking away to the u.s.	José B. González	2017
Watershed	Tracy K. Smith	2017
Coherence in Consequence	Claudia Rankine	2017
When I Read the Book	Walt Whitman	1891
I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule	Chen Chen	2016
Medusa	Louise Bogan	1921
I Do	Sjohnna McCray	2015
For Telly the Fish	Toi Derricotte	2011
When the Year Grows Old	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2014
Bound	Aline Murray Kilmer	2014
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit	Leigh Hunt	1836
Thursday	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Harlem Shadows	Claude McKay	1921
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009

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