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
From the Dark Tower	Countee Cullen	1922
Dejection: An Ode	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1802
Wings of Return	Don Mee Choi	2020
The Contrast	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Do You Know	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Tomboy	Claudia Masin, Robin Myers	2019
Ideology	Aria Aber	2019
An Adieu	Florence Earle Coates	1913
Elegy with Sympathy	Emily Skaja	2019
OBIT [Ambition]	Victoria Chang	2018
Hunger	Ama Codjoe	2019
An Offering	Kathryn Hunt	2019
Song of Myself, 37	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 19	Walt Whitman	1891
Winter-Lull	D. H. Lawrence	1919
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us	Molly McCully Brown, Susannah Nevison	2018
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11)	William Shakespeare	1904

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