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
Upstream	Carl Sandburg	1922
Orchard	Luisa A. Igloria	2020
In her mostly white town, an hour from Rocky Mountain National Park, a black poet considers centuries of protests against racialized violence	Camille T. Dungy	2021
Ode to Sitting in a Booth	Aimee Nezhukumatathil	2021
The Power of Hope Today	Gabrielle Marshall	2021
Never Again	Pamela Sneed	2020
In the Year of Permutations	Mai Der Vang	2020
A New Year’s Greeting to a College Senior	George Marion McClellan	1916
Spring Thunder	Mark Van Doren	1924
Heritage Emissary	Threa Almontaser	2020
To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	1900
Galileo	Paul Tran	2020
On the Hill-Side	Radclyffe Hall	1910
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
Aleppo	Hala Alyan	2019
A Far Rockaway of the Heart, 2	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1997
I Never Figured How to Get Free	Donika Kelly	2019
Song of Myself, 41	Walt Whitman	1891
The Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life	Susan Rich	2018
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse (Sonnet 86)	William Shakespeare	1904

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