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
Morning	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905
Blind Fish	Yusef Komunyakaa	2020
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things]	Terrance Hayes	2019
Asi	Claudia Castro Luna	2019
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters	Oscar Wilde	1886
Breathe. As in. (shadow)	Rosamond S. King	2019
You Lose Something Every Day	Willie Perdomo	2019
I Have Read the Whole Moon	Emily Skaja	2019
Song of Myself, 47	Walt Whitman	1891
War Within Myself	Daniel K.	2019
A Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2018
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Past Is the Present	Marianne Moore	1917
It Is Important To Be Something	Joshua Jennifer Espinoza	2018
Oriflamme	Jessie Redmon Fauset	1920
Eurydice	Willa Cather	1903
Praisesong	Sarah Browning	2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman]	Terrance Hayes	2017

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