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
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
A Girl's Garden	Robert Frost	2018
I Ask My Mother to Sing	Li-Young Lee	2017
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight	Jane Hirshfield	1997
At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)	John Donne	1633
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962
On Good and Evil	Kahlil Gibran	1923
On Crime and Punishment	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull	Lord George Gordon Byron	1922
Furry Bear	A. A. Milne	1927
My Hermitage	Alexander Posey	1910
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This	Hanif Abdurraqib	2018
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60)	William Shakespeare	2016
From “Elegy in Joy”	Muriel Rukeyser	2011
Short-Order Cook	Jim Daniels	1985
The Blue Dress	Saeed Jones	2017
It’s easy to invent a life (41)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Fable	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1899
Into the Dusk-Charged Air	John Ashbery	1997
It Happens Like This	James Tate	2003

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