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
Sleepers	Arthur Sze	2019
Collude	Bhanu Kapil	2019
Brief Interval	Cheryl Clarke	2019
Interrogation Suite: Where did you come from / how did you arrive?	Remica Bingham-Risher	2019
You Look Up Pictures of Icelandic Ponies	Ruth Madievsky	2019
Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood	torrin a. greathouse	2019
Ficus	Ruth Madievsky	2019
Questions	Pat Parker	2019
The Creative Drive	Catherine Barnett	2019
Transfigurations	Arthur Sze	2019
Gunshot	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
Brute Strength	Emily Skaja	2019
A Louder Thing	Tiana Clark	2019
Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head	William Cullen Bryant	1862
Song of Myself, 29	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, never say that I was false of heart (Sonnet 109)	William Shakespeare	1904
My love is strengthen'd though more week in seeming; (Sonnet 102)	William Shakespeare	1904
Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault (Sonnet 89)	William Shakespeare	1904

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