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 Bonfire	Robert Frost	2018
The Fear	Robert Frost	2018
The Comfort of Darkness	Galway Kinnell	2018
The Wall Hanging I Never Noticed	Dorothea Lasky	2014
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
Earth Your Dancing Place	May Swenson	2013
A Kite for Aibhin	Seamus Heaney	2010
The House on the Hill	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
Longing	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning	Leila Chatti	2021
Maine Yet Miami	Richard Blanco	2020
Afternoons	Jorge H. Aigla	2016
The Sky Over My Mother’s House	Jaime Manrique	2016
Ditty	Kevin Young	2016
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]	Petrarch	1374
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye	Albert Goldbarth	2007
A Song for Many Movements	Audre Lorde	1978
Walls	C. P. Cavafy	1927
An Invite to Eternity	John Clare	1893

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