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
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1863
Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day	Anne Brontë	2017
A Valentine	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Love Song for Love Songs	Rafael Campo	2012
Praise Song for the Day	Elizabeth Alexander	2009
To Helen	Edgar Allan Poe	1831
Playing with Bees	RK Fauth	2023
poem where no one is deported	José Olivarez	2021
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie	Becca Klaver	2018
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky	Lewis Carroll	1882
My Great-Grandmother’s Egg Thief	Roy G. Guzmán	2019
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale]	William Shakespeare	1596
The Day Lady Died	Frank O’Hara	1964
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time]	Claudia Rankine	2004
In a Time of Peace	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, Scene 2 [Winter]	William Shakespeare	1598
Not Waving but Drowning	Stevie Smith	1972
The Charm of 5:30	David Berman	2013
O Black and Unknown Bards	James Weldon Johnson	1922

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