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
To My Mother	Edgar Allan Poe	1849
To All My Friends	May Yang	2017
I Would Like to Describe	Zbigniew Herbert	2007
Ballad of the Goodly Fere	Ezra Pound	1956
One Boy Told Me	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle	Henry Charles Beeching	1895
Gacela of the Dark Death	Federico García Lorca	1973
Three Songs at the End of Summer	Jane Kenyon	2005
Porphyria’s Lover	Robert Browning	1868
After You Have Vanished	Kevin Prufer	2016
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
From “Grandmother’s Garden”	Meena Alexander	2020
A Song of a Navajo Weaver	Bertrand N. O. Walker	1906
Silence	Marianne Moore	1924
A Southern Night	Matthew Arnold	1861
The Lost Bird	Carolina Coronado	1878
Snake	D. H. Lawrence
Spirits of the Dead	Edgar Allan Poe	1829
Making a Fist	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Spleen	Charles Baudelaire	1982

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