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
Shared Plight	Kamilah Aisha Moon	2016
@ the Crossroads—A Sudden American Poem	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
Blue	Sidney Wade	2016
My Mother's Name Lucha	Juan Felipe Herrera	2012
The Lighted Window	Sara Teasdale	2015
The Universe	Joshua Henry Jones Jr.	2015
Respect	Melissa Studdard	2015
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms	Hayan Charara	2015
He Made This Screen	Marianne Moore	2015
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
The Documents	Terence Winch	2014
Weave in, My Hardy Life	Walt Whitman	2014
Sky Burial	Ron Koertge	2014
from Oracles for Youth	Caroline Gilman	1852
Song of Quietness	Robinson Jeffers	1916
Series	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2013
Goodnight Moon	James Arthur	2013
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
The Wound-Dresser	Walt Whitman	1891
She Is Overheard Singing	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1919

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