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
My Father’s Kites	Allison Joseph	2017
Sorrow	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
His Speed and Strength	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Lunch Break	Francisco Aragón	2016
Incendiary Art	Patricia Smith	2016
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138)	William Shakespeare	2016
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms	Hayan Charara	2015
At Night	Yone Noguchi	1920
The Graduate Leaving College	George Moses Horton	1845
Ashes of Life	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Plural Happiness	David Rivard	2011
Nearly a Valediction	Marilyn Hacker	1994
Grace for a Child	Robert Herrick	1648
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)	William Shakespeare	1609
Mummy of a Lady Named JemutesonekhXXI Dynasty	Thomas James	2008
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder	A. E. Housman	1939
Hades' Pitch	Rita Dove	1980
You Tell Us What to Do	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
The Blue Terrance	Terrance Hayes	2006

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