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 Banjo Player	Fenton Johnson	1922
Cattails	Nikky Finney	2011
Along with Youth	Ernest Hemingway	1923
Joy in the Woods	Claude McKay	1920
The Dead	Mina Loy	1920
How Much?	Carl Sandburg	1922
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]	Henry Howard	1557
The Soul’s Expression	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
Hades' Pitch	Rita Dove	1980
To Elsie	William Carlos Williams	1962
Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?	Langston Hughes	1994
Boaz Asleep	Victor Hugo	2001
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)	William Shakespeare	1609
Gravity	Mark Turcotte	2002
The Document	Noor Hindi	2026
Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton & Everybody Shows Up with Their Instrument Instead	Daniel B. Summerhill	2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours]	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Plot Against the Giant	Wallace Stevens	1923
The Sea / Is Sacred Still	Andrew Calis	2025

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