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
Susan B. Anthony	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
Third Georgic [Excerpt]	Virgil	1697
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
The Contrast	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
A Christmas Doll	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons	Alice Duer Miller	1915
She Returns to the Water	Erin Belieu	2020
Girls on the Town, 1946	Rita Dove	2020
A Miniature	Mary Jo Bang	2020
Vest	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
How the Stars Understand Us	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Time with Stevie Wonder in It	Christopher Gilbert	1984
Quest	Carrie Williams Clifford	1922
The Belladonna of Sadness	Sally Wen Mao	2019
Once	Paisley Rekdal	2019
The Armies of the Wilderness	Herman Melville	1864
Ball’s Bluff	Herman Melville	1866
A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown	Walt Whitman

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