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
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
What Seems Like Joy	Kaveh Akbar	2017
Appeal	Anne Brontë	2017
Praxis	Wendy Xu	2016
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
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
The Present/	Lisa Robertson	2010
The Bride of Corinth [From my grave to wander]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1853
November Night	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
Theme in Yellow	Carl Sandburg	1916
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773

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