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
If You Should Go	Countee Cullen	1922
In April	Rainer Maria Rilke	1918
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)	Tara Hardy	2020
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
The Poet and His Song	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
A Pain That Is Not Private	Lara Mimosa Montes	2018
Hallowmas	Madison Julius Cawein	2017
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades	June Jordan	2017
Ts'ai Chi'h	Ezra Pound	2017
Autumn, New York, 1999	Patricia Spears Jones	2016
Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid	Diane Seuss	2015
Untitled	Rachel McKibbens	2014
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
The Thread of Life	Christina Rossetti	1881
Po' Boy Blues	Langston Hughes	1994
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
O Little Root of a Dream	Paul Celan	2000
When that I was and a little tiny boy	William Shakespeare	1602
Song at Capri	Sara Teasdale	1925

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