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
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget	Anis Mojgani	2019
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
For a Daughter Who Leaves	Janice Mirikitani	2002
miss rosie	Lucille Clifton	1987
The Merry-Go-Round	Aldous Huxley	1918
Aunt Sue’s Stories	Langston Hughes	1921
Dewdrops	Myra Viola Wilds	1915
In my craft or sullen art	Dylan Thomas
The Sadness of Clothes	Emily Fragos	2015
Answer to a Child's Question	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1817
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion]	Petrarch	2004
My Friend Tree	Lorine Niedecker	1985
The Fifteenth of September	Manuel Acuña	1892
Fall	Didi Jackson	2019
Frederick Douglass	Robert Hayden	2017
The Narrow Way	Anne Brontë	2017
I Have this Way of Being	Jamaal May	2016
Into the Dusk-Charged Air	John Ashbery	1997
cutting greens	Lucille Clifton	1974
Revolutionary Letter #1	Diane di Prima	1971

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