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
Near Miss	Fanny Howe	2017
The Owner of the Night	Mark Doty	2017
The Calm	John Donne	2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite*	Stephanie Gray	2016
Now That We Have Tasted Hope	Khaled Mattawa	2016
Autumn, New York, 1999	Patricia Spears Jones	2016
Forbearance	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death and the City	Rowan Ricardo Phillips	2015
Brotherhood	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Beside You on Main Street	The Cyborg Jillian Weise	2015
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Compensation	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
Waiting for Rain	Ellen Bass	2013
Flush or Faunus	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2013
Aunt Helen	T. S. Eliot	1915
The Scholar-Gypsy	Matthew Arnold	1853
Prophecy	Dana Gioia	2012
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
from Blue Dark	Deborah Landau	2011

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