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
One Summer	Ann-Margaret Lim	2021
Poem [Being walkers with the dawn and morning]	Langston Hughes	1925
In the Heart of a Rose	George Marion McClellan	1916
The End of a Nation	Don Mee Choi	2020
The Days to Come	Medora C. Addison	1922
Disclosure	Camisha L. Jones	2020
A Benign Self-Portrait	N. Scott Momaday	2019
The Conflict of Convictions	Herman Melville	1860
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits	Xan Forest Phillips	2019
Breathe. As in. (shadow)	Rosamond S. King	2019
Aubade with Attention to Pathos	Emily Skaja	2019
At the Grave of the Forgotten	Effie Waller Smith	1909
[ t h e ] n o r t h [ e r n ] [ o f ] i r e l a n d	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Song of Myself, 30	Walt Whitman	1891
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
But wherefore do not you a mightier way (Sonnet 16)	William Shakespeare	1904
At a Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
And Now Upon My Head the Crown	Phillip B. Williams	2018
A Summer Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
Tavern	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017

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