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
Strong Men	Sterling A. Brown	1922
What It Must Have Felt Like	Ada Limón	2020
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
After the Movie	Marie Howe	2008
A Farewell to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
The Convergence of the Twain	Thomas Hardy	1915
Thanksgiving	James Whitcomb Riley	2017
Poem for My Son in the Car	Jennifer K. Sweeney	2017
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
The Woman and the Flame	Aimé Césaire	2011
A Book of Music	Jack Spicer	1958
Self-Portrait	Adam Zagajewski	1997
Beauty is not caused (57)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Self-Portrait as Lilith	Elizabeth Acevedo	2023
[Like a white stone]	Anna Akhmatova	1921
A Distant Song	John Gould Fletcher	1913
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill	Jason Reynolds	2018
In the Still, Star-Lit Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
Pokeberries	Ruth Stone	2017
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing]	Claudia Rankine	2014

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