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
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you	Kevin Varrone	2013
From “Elegy in Joy”	Muriel Rukeyser	2011
The Hand	Mary Ruefle	1996
American Sonnet (10)	Wanda Coleman	1993
a brief meditation on breath	Yesenia Montilla	2020
The Grave of Keats	Oscar Wilde	2018
Cento Between the Ending and the End	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2018
The Last Leaf	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1833
Blueberries	Robert Frost	1915
A Supermarket in California	Allen Ginsberg	1984
Against Dying	Kaveh Akbar	2017
Ghost Music	Robert Graves	2016
O, Gather Me the Rose	William Ernest Henley	1874
America Is Loving Me to Death	Michael Kleber-Diggs	2020
To a Locomotive in Winter	Walt Whitman	1891
A Song on the End of the World	Czesław Miłosz	1944
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry	Howard Nemerov	1980
The Great Lover	Rupert Brooke	1915
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
Answer to a Child's Question	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1817

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