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
In Praise of Okra	January Gill O’Neil	2009
Turtle Soup	Marilyn Chin	1994
Oughta Be a Woman	June Jordan	2017
Fall, Leaves, Fall	Emily Brontë	2017
The Iraqi Nights	Dunya Mikhail	2016
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon	Benjamin Alire Sáenz	2010
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea	Cecilia Woloch	2010
On His Deceased Wife	John Milton	1658
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)	William Shakespeare	1609
O Little Root of a Dream	Paul Celan	2000
There are inanimate things out there loving each other	francine j. harris	2025
As if some little Arctic flower	Emily Dickinson	1890
Let’s love each other	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Letters Found Near a Suicide	Frank Horne	1927
Fifty Years	James Weldon Johnson	1922
I Have Folded My Sorrows	Bob Kaufman	1965
From Fifth Avenue Up	Djuna Barnes	1915
Now Close the Windows	Robert Frost	1915
Ode to Anger	Marilyn Chin	1987
A Dream of T’ien-mu Mountain	Li Bai	1919

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