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 First Night	Billy Collins	2008
The Cows at Night	Hayden Carruth	2006
Novel	Arthur Rimbaud	2002
To the White Fiends	Claude McKay	1922
On Imagination	Phillis Wheatley	2016
The Night Migrations	Louise Glück	2006
To a Friend who sent me some Roses	John Keats	1817
Sharks in the Rivers	Ada Limón	2010
Dream-Land	Edgar Allan Poe	1844
For Once, Then, Something	Robert Frost	1920
Baseball and Writing	Marianne Moore	1961
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [I stood in Venice]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1818
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly	Ariana Brown	2026
i didn’t eat the sun	ire’ne lara silva	0026
No Explosions	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
To the Dandelion	James Russell Lowell	1843
[to keep knowing]	Aracelis Girmay	2023
Ledge	Kevin Young	2023
Sissy	Aaron Smith	2023
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954

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