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
She Was Fed Turtle Soup	Lois Red Elk	2017
Mariposa	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Practice Standing Unleashed and Clean	Patricia Smith	2016
Hotel	Ron Padgett	2016
Orchard	H.D.	1919
On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
Swimming	Carl Phillips	2015
Next Time Ask More Questions	Naomi Shihab Nye	2015
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
Be Kind	Michael Blumenthal	2011
Text Messages	Jordan Davis	2010
Curse of the Cat Woman	Edward Field	2007
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness	John Donne	1623
Patience	Kay Ryan	2000
Of Many Worlds in this World	Margaret Cavendish	1653
An Old-Fashioned Song	John Hollander	1993
In the Land of Words	Eloise Greenfield	2004
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm	Carl Phillips	2004
All She Wrote	Harryette Mullen	1997

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