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
Socks	Margaret Ross	2017
The Candle Indoors	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2016
Swan’s Elegy	Jaime Manrique	2016
My Mother's Name Lucha	Juan Felipe Herrera	2012
Prison	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
Brotherhood	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
The Key	Ladan Osman	2015
On the Road to the Sea	Charlotte Mew	1914
The War After the War	Debora Greger	2010
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	Sir Walter Scott	1816
Balance	Adam Zagajewski	2008
Lights Out	Edward Thomas	1917
Epithalamium	Matthew Rohrer	2001
The Drunken Fisherman	Robert Lowell	1976
December 2, 2002	Juliana Spahr	2005
A Newborn Girl at Passover	Nan Cohen	1998
One of the Lives	W. S. Merwin	1996
Honey	Arielle Greenberg	2005
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree]	Homer	1961

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