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
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence	Camille T. Dungy	2021
The Dance of Love	Countee Cullen	1925
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
Spring Thunder	Mark Van Doren	1924
Galileo	Paul Tran	2020
Close Reading	Brandon Som	2019
On the Hill-Side	Radclyffe Hall	1910
From “Stray Birds” [233—237]	Rabindranath Tagore	1921
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
Fides, Spes	Willa Cather	1903
The Virus	Jericho Brown	2019
What We Cannot Hear	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1997
Song of Myself, 41	Walt Whitman	1891
The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life	Susan Rich	2018
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse (Sonnet 86)	William Shakespeare	1904
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Song of a Navajo Weaver	Bertrand N. O. Walker	1906
Victory	Rupert Brooke	2018

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