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
These Hands, If Not Gods	Natalie Diaz	2013
A Birthday	Christina Rossetti	1861
The Portrait	Stanley Kunitz	1991
The Lovers of the Poor	Gwendolyn Brooks	1999
The Iliad, Book IV [First Blood]	Homer	2023
Poem for South African Women	June Jordan	2017
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding	Beth Ann Fennelly	2021
2008, XII	Wendell Berry	2016
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle	Henry Charles Beeching	1895
The Seedling	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Song of Myself, 46	Walt Whitman	1891
The Harp of Broken Strings	John Rollin Ridge	1850
I Never Wanted to Die	Dorianne Laux	2021
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]	William Shakespeare	2016
Where Go the Boats?	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
Light breaks where no sun shines	Dylan Thomas	1937
To market, to market		2004

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