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 White Ones	Langston Hughes	1926
Monotony	Langston Hughes	1923
No More Fire Here: A Sestina	b: william bearhart	2020
Praise	Angelo Geter	2020
Love Game	Angelo Geter	2018
Spring Thunder	Mark Van Doren	1924
Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild	J. P. Grasser	2020
Tomboy	Claudia Masin, Robin Myers	2019
My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea	Parneshia Jones	2019
Exit Strategy	Kazim Ali	2019
Sic Vita	Henry David Thoreau	2019
Of Liberation	Magdalena Zurawski	2019
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget	Anis Mojgani	2019
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn (Sonnet 152)	William Shakespeare	1904
What's in the brain that ink may character (Sonnet 108)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Cabbage Butterfly	Minnie Bruce Pratt	2018
Break of Day in the Trenches	Isaac Rosenberg	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
The Old Arm-Chair	Eliza Cook	2017
Potato	Jane Kenyon	2017

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