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
Song of Myself, 50	Walt Whitman	1891
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90)	William Shakespeare	1904
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden	Katherine Riegel	2018
Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943	Sam Sax	2017
Sorrow	D. H. Lawrence	1916
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
A Queerification	Regie Cabico	2016
Mist	Henry David Thoreau	2015
Burning the Old Year	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America	Ada Limón	2012
The Planting of the Apple-Tree	William Cullen Bryant	1864
Our Valley	Philip Levine	2009
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames]	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	2007
Ode to Spring	Frederick Seidel	2009
The Forms of Love	George Oppen	1975
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems	James Tate	1991
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	John Milton	1645
Into the Dusk-Charged Air	John Ashbery	1997
The Voice	Thomas Hardy	1915

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