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
Inarticulate Grief	Richard Aldington	2018
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.	Donika Kelly	2017
Peaches	Adrienne Su	2015
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Infant Joy	William Blake	1789
The Chambered Nautilus	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1858
i didn’t eat the sun	ire’ne lara silva	0026
[Like a white stone]	Anna Akhmatova	1921
From “Grandmother’s Garden”	Meena Alexander	2020
Al Aaraaf	Edgar Allan Poe
Strawberrying	May Swenson	2016
The Definition of Love	Andrew Marvell	1681
Gacela of the Dark Death	Federico García Lorca	1973
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Our Lady of the Garden	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2026
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
Honestly,	John Ashbery	2015
To a Locomotive in Winter	Walt Whitman	1891
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	William Wordsworth	1800
Woodchucks	Maxine Kumin	1972

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