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
The Graduate Leaving College	George Moses Horton	1845
Of the Surface of Things	Wallace Stevens	1919
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
To Blossoms	Robert Herrick	1648
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
Age and Death	Emma Lazarus	1888
Of Memory and Distance	Russell Edson	2005
The Family Photograph	Vona Groarke	2004
The Poem as Mask	Muriel Rukeyser	2004
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
The Two	Philip Levine	2002
Break of Day	John Donne	1612
The Collar	George Herbert	1633
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped	Denise Duhamel	2025
Cat	Josephine Miles	1983
17 Kinds of Hungry	Adrian Matejka	2024
Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)	Patrick Rosal	2024
Winter Song	Wilfred Owen	1931

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