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
A Coast-Nightmare	Christina Rossetti	1896
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	2022
Curl	Diane Seuss	2021
In Public	John Wieners	2015
sky hammer	Julian Talamantez Brolaski	2022
Portrait of My Gender as [Inaudible]	Meg Day	2020
Taking Your Olympic Measure	Alberto Ríos	2021
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783
I Am Like a Leaf	Yone Noguchi	1921
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods	Walt Whitman
What We Cannot Hear	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives	Lory Bedikian	2018
notes on the seasons	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2018
The Past Suffers Too	Ben Purkert	2018
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Water	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
Where I Live	Maxine Kumin	2010
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
The Bride of Corinth [From my grave to wander]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1853

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