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
A Grain of Sand	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
Still Life with Ladder	Susan Rich	2018
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)	William Shakespeare	1904
When thou shalt be disposed to set me light (Sonnet, 88)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it thy will thy image should keep open (Sonnet 61)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
On Buying and Selling	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Amor Fati	Catherine Barnett	2018
Becoming Ghost	Cathy Linh Che	2018
She Didn’t Even Wave	Ai	2018
Speak Now, Or Forever. Hold Your Peace.	Patricia Smith	2018
Silence Is So Accurate, Rothko Wrote	Diane Seuss	2018
A Poem as Long as California	Rick Barot	2017
To the American People	Richard Calmit Adams	2017
Talent	Layli Long Soldier	2017
Home-Coming	Léonie Adams	2017
Villanelle with Violin	Marilyn Krysl	2017
Song of the Cluster Bomblet	Soul Vang	2017
Sea Lily	H.D.	2016
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth (Sonnet 146)	William Shakespeare	2016

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