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
I Never Knew I Loved Dean Rader	Dean Rader	2021
The Secret of Youth	Micah Daniels	2020
Militants to Certain Other Women	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
October Evening	Robinson Jeffers	1935
Ever Faithful to You	Lucian B. Watkins	1903
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur	Ellen Bass	2020
brief lesson on marriage	G. C. Waldrep	2019
etymology	Airea D. Matthews	2019
Mediterranean Blue	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
Epitaph	Jim Moore	2018
Roses Only	Marianne Moore	1921
Childhood in the Latin Caribbean	Victor Hernández Cruz	2017
Δώρια	Ezra Pound	2017
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
On the Freedom of the Press	Benjamin Franklin	2017
Before a Painting	James Weldon Johnson	2016
When I Read the Book	Walt Whitman	1891
Global Warming	Jane Hirshfield	2006
things that shine in the night	Rigoberto González	2016

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