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
Wild Grapes	Robert Frost	1924
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	Wilfred Owen	2018
Translation for Mamá	Richard Blanco	2016
To a Star Seen at Twilight	John Rollin Ridge	2017
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved	Nâzim Hikmet	1986
Ballad of Birmingham	Dudley Randall	2009
Basket of Figs	Ellen Bass	2002
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
I Loved You Before I Was Born	Li-Young Lee	2018
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles	Francisco X. Alarcón	2017
A Blessing for Wedding	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards	Kaveh Akbar	2017
The Carrying	Ada Limón	2017
When We Look Up	Denise Levertov	1966
Winter Stores	Charlotte Brontë	1846
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs]	Pablo Neruda	2016
not an elegy for Mike Brown	Danez Smith	2016
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]	John Keats	1817
Lover	Ada Limón	2021
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer	John Keats	1816

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