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
Songs (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Only a Word	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
One Geography of Belonging	Kayleb Rae Candrilli	2019
Toomer	Elizabeth Alexander	2010
Prelude and Fugue	Angela Narciso Torres	2019
Invisible Globe	Arthur Sze	2018
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' (Sonnet 135)	William Shakespeare	1904
If my dear love were but the child of state (Sonnet 124)	William Shakespeare	1904
Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth (Sonnet 103)	William Shakespeare	1904
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; (Sonnet 40)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Broken Tablets	Rodger Kamenetz	2018
On the Death of Her Father	Lynley Edmeades	2018
The Desert	Brandon Shimoda	2018
The Price of Peace	Henry van Dyke	2018
A Shropshire Lad, XI	A. E. Housman	2018
The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law	Elizabeth Alexander	2018
You Are So Articulate With Your Hands	Joshua Bennett	2018
From “denouement”	Anne Waldman	2018
American Rome	Sandra Beasley	2018
The Prophetess Sojourner Truth Discusses the Two Different Versions of Her Most Well-Known Speech, One Nearly Unknown and One Very Beloved Yet Mostly Untrue	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	2018

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