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
In the Desert	Stephen Crane	2017
Song for the Turtles in the Gulf	Linda Hogan	2016
Falling	Patrick Phillips	2016
Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake]	Christina Rossetti	1881
Will You Come?	Edward Thomas	2018
Against Dying	Kaveh Akbar	2017
The World Book	Patricia Hooper	2017
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day	Anne Brontë	2017
Detail of the Woods	Richard Siken	2011
Back Yard	Carl Sandburg	1916
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time]	Claudia Rankine	2004
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
Thanks	Yusef Komunyakaa	2016
Milton [Excerpt]	William Blake	1811
Night Funeral in Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994
[An ancient pond!]	Matsuo Bashō	1899
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
The Traveling Onion	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Trees at Night	Helene Johnson	1925
To a Skylark	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820

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