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
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
At Eleusis	H.D.	1924
What I Think About When Someone Uses “Pussy” as a Synonym for “Weak”	Beth Ann Fennelly	2017
What Sadness Anywhere Is Sadness	Shane McCrae	2020
The Fugitive’s Wife	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Rain	William Saphier	1920
Armature	Deborah Paredez	2020
Do You Know	Alice Duer Miller	1915
The Encounter with the Goddess	Alicia Ostriker	2020
Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border	Suji Kwock Kim	2019
The Late Cold War	Brenda Hillman	2019
Self-Portrait with Weeping Woman	Deborah Paredez	2019
The Snow Mare	N. Scott Momaday	2019
A Meditation	Herman Melville	1891
First O Songs for a Prelude	Walt Whitman
Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood	torrin a. greathouse	2019
from "Three Demons": Sanki Series I	Sanki Saitō	2019
From “A Brief History of Fathers Searching for Their Sons” [1. Parable]	Rigoberto González	2019
A Coney Island of the Mind, 19	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
Song of the Open Road, 14	Walt Whitman	1891

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