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
who will be the messenger of this land	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century	Herman Melville	2019
Sic Vita	Henry David Thoreau	2019
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year	Dean Rader	2019
Self-Portrait with Dad’s Baseball Glove	Nathan Hoks	2019
Song of Myself, 9	Walt Whitman	1891
Fragmentary Blue	Robert Frost	1923
So Many	JD Pluecker	2019
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: (Sonnet 153)	William Shakespeare	1904
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Grave of Shelley	Oscar Wilde	2018
Owed to the Plastic on Your Grandmother's Couch	Joshua Bennett	2018
Mercy, Mercy, Me	John Murillo	2018
TO F——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
White Boy Time Machine: Override	Hieu Minh Nguyen	2018
Opening the Hands between Here and Here	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Desert Pools	Sara Teasdale	1915
A Poem as Long as California	Rick Barot	2017
Roman Poem Number Thirteen	June Jordan	2017
I guess it was my destiny to live so long	June Jordan	2017

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