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
Where the Sky Meets the Earth	W. Todd Kaneko	2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”]	Layli Long Soldier	2017
The Museum of Stones	Carolyn Forché	2016
On the Beach at Night Alone	Walt Whitman	1891
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur	2004
A Litany	Gregory Orr	2002
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps	Galway Kinnell	2000
My Father on His Shield	Walt McDonald	1998
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
Sheep in Winter	John Clare	1835
A Coast-Nightmare	Christina Rossetti	1896
The Deserted Plantation	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
The Dawn’s Awake!	Otto Leland Bohanan	1922
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75)	William Shakespeare	1904
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror	Mary Jo Bang	2017
Sorcery	Sandra Simonds	2016
Moonrise	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2015
As a Portent	David Baker	2014
If You Go into the Woods You Will Find It Has a Technology	Heather Christle	2012
El Florida Room	Richard Blanco	2012

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