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.

Occasions

Themes

Forms

Search title or text

Title	Author	Year
Roof Nightclub	Ishion Hutchinson	2018
The Painted Ceiling	Amy Lowell	2018
Praisesong	Sarah Browning	2017
My Father’s Kites	Allison Joseph	2017
My Father	Francisco X. Alarcón	2017
Night	H.D.	2017
Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love	Katie Willingham	2017
Echolocation	Sally Bliumis-Dunn	2016
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)	William Shakespeare	2016
In the City of Night	John Gould Fletcher	1921
August	Algernon Charles Swinburne	1904
Of the Surface of Things	Wallace Stevens	1919
Joy in the Woods	Claude McKay	1920
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only)	Adrienne Rich	1997
A Meadow	Lucie Brock-Broido	2011
One Child Has Brown Eyes	Marilyn Chin	2010
Incantation	George Parsons Lathrop	1892
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
Tender Buttons [Apple]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Song on May Morning	John Milton	1645

Page submenu block