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
Back Yard	Carl Sandburg	1916
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
The Chambered Nautilus	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1858
Gitanjali 103	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Trees at Night	Helene Johnson	1925
Transport	Safia Elhillo	2018
The Soul has Bandaged moments (360)	Emily Dickinson	2016
The City Limits	A. R. Ammons	1986
Aubade with Attention to Pathos	Emily Skaja	2019
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
The Return	Ezra Pound	1913
The Sorrow of Love	W. B. Yeats	1893
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Night Funeral in Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994
The Widening Spell of the Leaves	Larry Levis	1991
The Labyrinth	Jorge Luis Borges	1999
Manila Bay	Luis G. Dato	1926
Where the Sky Meets the Earth	W. Todd Kaneko	2017
Maps	Yesenia Montilla	2017
Christmas at Sea	Robert Louis Stevenson	1888

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