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 Political Litany	Philip Freneau	1775
Sunset, Venice Beach, October	Kalehua Kim	2026
The Cowboy	James Tate	2008
French Toast	Cammy Thomas	2021
Dogwood Blossoms	George Marion McClellan	1922
Letter to Noah’s Wife	Maya C. Popa	2019
The Sparrow	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50)	William Shakespeare	1904
Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	Maggie Smith	2018
A Song for Merry Harvest	Eliza Cook	2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
For My Mother	May Sarton	2016
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye	Albert Goldbarth	2007
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
Dead Leaves	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1918
For a Daughter Who Leaves	Janice Mirikitani	2002
[I’m happiest now when most away]	Emily Brontë	1908
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky	Lewis Carroll	1882

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