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
It’s a Long Way	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
Love Game	Angelo Geter	2018
Midwife Cat	Mark Van Doren	1924
Sage #3	Marilyn Chin	2020
Free Labor	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Vindication	Claudia Castro Luna	2020
"That Blessed Hope"	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1846
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson	Robin Coste Lewis	2017
Third Rock from the Sun	Dorianne Laux	2019
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
Aubade with Attention to Pathos	Emily Skaja	2019
Song of the Open Road, 11	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 39	Walt Whitman	1891
A Grain of Sand	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1895
Reapers	Jean Toomer	1923
The Christmas Wreath	Anna de Brémont	2018
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long (Sonnet 100)	William Shakespeare	1904
This is his cheek the map of days outworn (Sonnet 68)	William Shakespeare	1904
13 Questions for the Next Economy	Susan Briante	2018
Convalescence	Amy Lowell	2018

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