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
Let Me Not Lose My Dream	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
The Past	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
The Floral Apron	Marilyn Chin	2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove	Nathan Hoks	2019
Sleeping Beauty	Nick Flynn	2019
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140)	William Shakespeare	1904
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; (Sonnet 113)	William Shakespeare	1094
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49)	William Shakespeare	1904
I Love You	Jenny George	2018
For Sister Gwen Brooks	Sonia Sanchez	2018
The Lamp of Life	Amy Lowell	2018
Petals	Amy Lowell	2018
Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead	Dorothy Chan	2018
Poem Full of Worry Ending with My Birth	Tarfia Faizullah	2018
Facing US	Amanda Johnston	2018
Two Set Out on Their Journey	Galway Kinnell	2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name]	Terrance Hayes	2017
Instructions for Stopping	Dana Levin	2017
The Dream of Shoji	Kimiko Hahn	2016

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