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
The Oven-Bird	Robert Frost	1916
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Carmel Point	Robinson Jeffers	1995
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion]	Petrarch	2004
Black Stone Lying On A White Stone	César Vallejo	1971
To Her Portrait	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	1920
The Ocean	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1825
From “Elegy in Joy”	Muriel Rukeyser	2011
Self-Portrait	Adam Zagajewski	1997
As dogs	Rachel B. Glaser	2021
Sonnet VII	Hartley Coleridge	1833
Gunga Din	Rudyard Kipling	1892
A Grave	Marianne Moore	1981
The Fifteenth of September	Manuel Acuña	1892
Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	Maggie Smith	2018
To the River—	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and You Have to Start Again	David Welch	2018
Replica of The Thinker	Matthew Olzmann	2016
When our two souls... (Sonnet 22)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
A Cry from an Indian Wife	Emily Pauline Johnson	1900

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