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
Song of a Second April	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Absence	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1900
Near Miss	Fanny Howe	2017
The Owner of the Night	Mark Doty	2017
My Sadness	Campbell McGrath	2016
The Calm	John Donne	2016
If you look closely enough at a word, you’ll find it contains its opposite*	Stephanie Gray	2016
Autumn Passage	Elizabeth Alexander	2016
Now That We Have Tasted Hope	Khaled Mattawa	2016
Autumn, New York, 1999	Patricia Spears Jones	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
Call of the Night	Djuna Barnes	2016
Enough	Ellen Bass	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Respect	Melissa Studdard	2015
Mozart Songbook	Joan Larkin	2015
The Interviewer Acknowledges Grief	Tarfia Faizullah	2015
Spain	Major Jackson	2015
Beside You on Main Street	The Cyborg Jillian Weise	2015
On Seeing a Tuft of Snowdrops in a Storm	William Wordsworth	1820

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