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 Murderess	Alice Cary	1903
Journey	Lidija Dimkovska	2020
To Sir Toby	Philip Freneau	1795
Monotone	Carl Sandburg	1916
Free Labor	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
This Bridge Across	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Ode to the Whitman Line “When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d”	Kimiko Hahn	2019
Dear Buffalo, Dear Zeta or To a Few of My Dead or Nearly Dead Tíos	Joseph Rios	2019
Raindrops	Mrs. Minot Carter	1922
The Belladonna of Sadness	Sally Wen Mao	2019
A Fourteen-Line Poem on Heteronymic	Julie Carr	2019
i know the grandmother one had hands	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
A Winter Scene	Henry David Thoreau	1895
Magpies Recognize Themselves in the Mirror	Kelli Russell Agodon	2019
OBIT [Music]	Victoria Chang	2017
Upon the Mountain’s Distant Head	William Cullen Bryant	1862
Song of Myself, 17	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (V)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear (Sonnet 77)	William Shakespeare	1904
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest (Sonnet 11)	William Shakespeare	1904

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