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 Poet and His Song	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives	Lory Bedikian	2018
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina)	Lawrence Schimel	2018
Post-Diagnosis	Sam Sax	2017
Dear P. [If you are]	Victoria Chang	2017
Soul Train	Allison Joseph	2017
The Flight	Sara Teasdale	1915
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	1623
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]	Petrarch	1374
Harlem Shadows	Claude McKay	1921
Numbness	Phillip Lopate	2009
Thanksgiving	Edgar Guest	1917
Latin & Soul	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Oh Who Is That Young Sinner	A. E. Housman	1937
The White Fires of Venus	Denis Johnson	1994
The Song of Hiawatha [Excerpt]	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1855
Yellow Stars and Ice	Susan Stewart	1981
Haiku Ambulance	Richard Brautigan	1989
When that I was and a little tiny boy	William Shakespeare	1602
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16	Homer	1975

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