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
And That Mysterious Word Holy	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
To Winter	Claude McKay	1922
Together	Carrie Williams Clifford	1922
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
A Far Country	Leslie Pinckney Hill	1921
Song of Myself, 22	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1925
A Man’s World	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Ways to Harm a Thing	Kaveh Akbar	2017
In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife	Megan Fernandes	2017
City Moon	Francisco Aragón	2016
Cosmopolite	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier	Matthew Rohrer	2014
Tackle Football	Dan Chiasson	2013
The Living Beauty	W. B. Yeats	1919
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata	Natasha Trethewey	2012
America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4	William Blake	1793
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
Pillow	Li-Young Lee	2001
A Shropshire Lad, XIII	A. E. Housman	1896

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