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 Spires of Oxford	Winifred M. Letts	2018
On Small Talk	Marcus Wicker	2018
An Old Story	Tracy K. Smith	2018
The Hill Wife	Robert Frost	2018
Pokeberries	Ruth Stone	2017
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished?	Naomi Shihab Nye	2008
Hagar in the Wilderness	Tyehimba Jess	2013
My Love Sent Me a List	Olena Kalytiak Davis	2013
Spring	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Magnolia	Gerald Stern	2011
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
Inspiration	Henry David Thoreau	1895
The Problem	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1847
Cutty Sark	Hart Crane	1930
for goldfish that remember seaworld	D’mani Thomas	2026
As if some little Arctic flower	Emily Dickinson	1890
When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation	Kyle Tran Myhre	2024
General Review of the Sex Situation	Dorothy Parker	1926
The Dawn’s Awake!	Otto Leland Bohanan	1922
Family Reunion	Rita Dove	2007

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