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
In the Forest	Oscar Wilde	1909
Going Home the Longest Way Around	Pat Schneider	2005
My Father. A Tree.	Tina Chang	2020
My Mother, My Mother	Lue Hughes	2020
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour”	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
My 24 Hour Version	Lois Red Elk	2017
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose]	A. E. Housman	2017
Summer Triptych	Linda Pastan	2015
The Balloon of the Mind	W. B. Yeats	1919
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
If I Am Alive To	Charif Shanahan	2018
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror	Mary Jo Bang	2017
Let Me Try Again	Javier Zamora	2017
The Fool’s Song	William Carlos Williams	2017
Pastoral	William Carlos Williams	2016
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
A Litany	Gregory Orr	2002
Notes for Canto CXX	Ezra Pound	1956

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