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
Bound	Aline Murray Kilmer	2014
Aspiration	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1910
The Answer	Sara Teasdale	1915
At Night	Yone Noguchi	1920
On the Road to the Sea	Charlotte Mew	1914
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
Christabel [excerpt]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1816
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty	Thomas James	2008
In a Boat	D. H. Lawrence	1916
The Routine Things Around the House	Stephen Dunn	2006
To Blossoms	Robert Herrick	1648
Well Water	Randall Jarrell	1969
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses	Alberto Ríos	1990
Age and Death	Emma Lazarus	1888
Homosexuality	Spencer Reece	2004
Always on the Train	Ruth Stone	2003
If the Owl Calls Again	John Haines	1993
Prayer	Jorie Graham	2002

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