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
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is	Patrick Rosal	2018
A Prophecy: To George Keats in America	John Keats	2017
Lines Breaking	José B. González	2017
The End	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Hurricane	Yona Harvey	2017
The Candle Indoors	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2016
The Black Woman’s Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day	Douglas Kearney	2016
The Dream of Shoji	Kimiko Hahn	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Mozart Songbook	Joan Larkin	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing]	Claudia Rankine	2014
A Violin at Dusk	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1920
Of the Surface of Things	Wallace Stevens	1919
The Everyday Enchantment of Music	Mark Strand	2012
What the Angels Left	Marie Howe	1988
November Night	Adelaide Crapsey	1915
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald]	William Shakespeare	1623
Belarusian I	Valzhyna Mort	2008

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