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
A Raft of Grief	Chelsea Rathburn	2013
Ode to Sudanese-Americans	Safia Elhillo	2021
Never Enough of Living	Léonie Adams	1925
This Body II	Renée Watson	2019
Nocturne	Gwendolyn Bennett	1922
Power (audio only)	Audre Lorde	1978
Sage #3	Marilyn Chin	2020
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783
Bliss Point or What Can Best Be Achieved by Cheese	Benjamin Garcia	2020
Migration	Jenny George	2020
Remember the Boys	Rachel McKibbens	2020
Farewell	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	1895
From “Stray Birds” [233—237]	Rabindranath Tagore	1921
My Prayer	Henry David Thoreau	1895
What We Cannot Hear	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
With Child	Genevieve Taggard	1922
O, from what power hast thou this powerful might (Sonnet 150)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art (Sonnet 131)	William Shakespeare	1904
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long (Sonnet 100)	William Shakespeare	1904
This is his cheek the map of days outworn (Sonnet 68)	William Shakespeare	1904

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