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
Turtle Soup	Marilyn Chin	1994
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose]	A. E. Housman	2017
American Pharoah	Ada Limón	2016
Little Father	Li-Young Lee	2001
A Kite for Aibhin	Seamus Heaney	2010
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
Sharks in the Rivers	Ada Limón	2010
Kentucky River Junction	Wendell Berry	1985
The Wall	Donald Justice	2004
Dawn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
We Were All Odysseus in Those Days	Amorak Huey	2019
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147)	William Shakespeare	1904
Binsey Poplars	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2016
The Sea of Glass	Ezra Pound	1917
On Virtue	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Poem [I do not always understand what you say.]	James Schuyler	1993
Prayers of Steel	Carl Sandburg	1918
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake]	Christina Rossetti	1881

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