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
Song of Myself, 35	Walt Whitman	1891
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90)	William Shakespeare	1904
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Pain That Is Not Private	Lara Mimosa Montes	2018
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean	Patricia Smith	2016
Equinox	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)	William Shakespeare	2016
Like as, to make our appetite more keen (Sonnet 118)	William Shakespeare	2016
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
Liberty	Edward Thomas	1917
Self-Portrait as Artemis	Tarfia Faizullah	2015
The Buttonhook	Mary Jo Salter	2014
Before and Every After	Marianne Boruch	2014
Friend,	Jean Valentine	2013
The Banjo Player	Fenton Johnson	1922
Day of Grief	Gerald Stern	2012
Red Wand	Sandra Simonds	2012
Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree	D. A. Powell	2010
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea	Cecilia Woloch	2010
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874

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