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
My Mother and Lucille Clifton Have Tea	Parneshia Jones	2019
praise song	Jaki Shelton Green	2019
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century	Herman Melville	2019
Milkweed	Helen Hunt Jackson
Song of the Open Road, 11	Walt Whitman	1891
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget	Anis Mojgani	2019
This is his cheek the map of days outworn (Sonnet 68)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Sonnet [XXXIV]	Charles Hamilton Sorley	1919
Play the Game	Jessie Pope	2018
Prelude: The Troops	Siegfried Sassoon	2018
She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1911
Burn	Janice N. Harrington	2018
As due by many titles I resign (Holy Sonnet II)	John Donne	2018
Defiant	Patricia Spears Jones	2018
The Fairy Tree of Domremy	Mark Twain	2018
THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM	Amy Lowell	2018
Unrest in Baton Rouge	Tracy K. Smith	2018
Heisenberg	Christian Barter	2018
Eurydice	Willa Cather	1903
If You’re Staying, I’ll Stay Too	Meg Day	2017

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