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
One Way or Another	Maya C. Popa	2022
Lies I Tell	Sara Borjas	2018
Do Not Speak of the Dead	Cecilia Llompart	2015
Fast Break	Edward Hirsch	1986
Untitled [Do you still remember: falling stars]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]	William Shakespeare	1603
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1883
When I Rise Up	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Yours	Daniel Hoffman	2003
Grace	Joy Harjo	1990
On Good and Evil	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Hallowe'en	Joel Benton	2017
The Ecchoing Green	William Blake	2016
This Compost	Walt Whitman	1856
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
The Book of Questions, III	Pablo Neruda	2001
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies]	Aracelis Girmay	2020
Dear March—Come in—(1320)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Ulalume	Edgar Allan Poe	1847

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