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
Swans	Sara Teasdale	1915
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	John Keats	2015
Xicano	J. Michael Martinez	2010
Yellow Beak	Stephen Dobyns	2005
After a Death	Tomas Tranströmer	2004
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees	Muriel Leung	2026
This Evening Let’s	Adrienne Rich	2004
Whatever the ways of the world,	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Odysseus	Joseph Fasano	2018
I Sought the Wood in Winter	Willa Cather	1903
Lenox Avenue: Midnight	Langston Hughes	1926
Diabolic	Cornelius Eady	2020
Ars Poetica (Excerpt from “Telling the Gospel Truth”)	Beth Ann Fennelly	2004
Portent	William Carlos Williams	2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”]	Layli Long Soldier	2017
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
Lamia [Left to herself]	John Keats	1820
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes]	William Shakespeare	1603
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed	Jack Prelutsky	1990

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