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
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
To the Film Industry in Crisis	Frank O’Hara	1957
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
A Friendship	Sophie Jewett	1910
Move	Alicia Ostriker	2018
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker	John Olivares Espinoza	2017
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
Only as the Day Is Long	Dorianne Laux	2015
To Helen About Her Hair	Robinson Jeffers	1912
Rock Me to Sleep	Elizabeth Akers Allen	1859
The Seven Prisms of My Blood	Khaty Xiong	2020
First Light	Chen Chen	2017
beside her unearthing	nicole v basta	2022
Dawn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
My Great-Grandmother’s Egg Thief	Roy G. Guzmán	2019
Evening Song	Jean Toomer	1923
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
My Mother's Name Lucha	Juan Felipe Herrera	2012
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	Randall Jarrell	1969
Happiness	Jane Kenyon	2001

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