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
The Oven-Bird	Robert Frost	1916
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	John Donne	1633
First Gestures	Julia Spicher Kasdorf	1998
Whatever the ways of the world,	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
On the Wing	Christina Rossetti	1904
Gitanjali 35	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Change on Change	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1846
Childhood Elegy	Joseph O. Legaspi	2007
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War	Joy Harjo	2019
The Wreck of the Hesperus	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1842
Long, Too Long America	Walt Whitman
The Thrill of the Chase	Forrest Fenn
Hair	Francisco Aragón	2018
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
A Man’s A Man For A’ That	Robert Burns	1795
To His Mistress Going to Bed	John Donne	1654
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks	Jane Kenyon	1986
“I worked hard so my girls didn’t have to serve nobody else like I did except God”	Yona Harvey	2020
Cavalry Crossing a Ford	Walt Whitman
America, I Sing Back	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke	2016

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