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
Sissy	Aaron Smith	2023
The Eyes of My Regret	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
To Mycorrhizae Under Our Mother’s Garden	Brenda Hillman	2022
Language of the Moon	Major Jackson	2022
He Had His Dream	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
My Memories Live in my Mother’s Phone	Naomi Shihab Nye	2022
A Distant Song	John Gould Fletcher	1913
Memory	George Moses Horton	1845
Distracted from COVID-19, Attention Shifts to MIA Maiden from Land O’Lakes Butter Box	Tiffany Midge	2020
1918, Iva Describes Her Deathbed	LeAnne Howe	2020
When We’re in Bed and You Take Out Your Mouth Guard, I Know It’s On	Melissa Crowe	2020
Mountains	Henry David Thoreau	1843
Lifted	Craig Morgan Teicher	2019
Canto V	Ezra Pound
[In a dream I spoke with the Cyprus-born]	Sappho	1907
King Canute	William Makepeace Thackeray	2018
Mariposa	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
the dark tree, the cold sea	Emily Fragos	2017
Where Honey Comes From	Maggie Smith	2017
Collectors	Marion Strobel	2016

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