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
Immigrant Can’t Write Poetry	Wang Ping	2018
Old South Meeting House	January Gill O’Neil	2016
Pastoral	William Carlos Williams	2016
The Plain Sense of Things	Wallace Stevens	2011
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72	Charles Harper Webb	2010
To Dorothy	Marvin Bell	2000
Going Home the Longest Way Around	Pat Schneider	2005
The Lost Bird	Carolina Coronado	1878
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning	Leila Chatti	2021
The Teller of Tales	Gabriela Mistral	2003
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954
In-between the sun and moon	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
The River	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are You Going to Stay?	Thomas Meyer	2015
Acrostic	Lewis Carroll	1861
To a Mouse,	Robert Burns	1786
canvas and mirror	Evie Shockley	2010
Luck is not chance (1350)	Emily Dickinson	1890
A List of Praises	Anne Porter	2006
I Would Like to Describe	Zbigniew Herbert	2007

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