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
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120)	William Shakespeare	1904
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect (Sonnet 70)	William Shakespeare	1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
When I do count the clock that tells the time (Sonnet 12)	William Shakespeare	1904
Bildungsroman	Sam Sax	2018
The Broken Man’s Permission	Aaron Coleman	2018
Hide and Seek	Charles Simic	2018
Service Station	Danusha Laméris	2018
Staring into the Sun	Jennifer Grotz	2017
A Delaware Indian Legend	Richard Calmit Adams	2017
Watch Us Elocute	Marcus Wicker	2017
Song of a Second April	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Huntress	H.D.	2017
Twentieth Century	Maggie Smith	2017
Divine Overdose	Matthew Rohrer	2016
Detour of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument	Craig Santos Perez	2016
Alphabet Street	Randall Mann	2016
I Hid My Love	John Clare	2016
Saturday	Margaret Ross	2016
Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You	Colleen J. McElroy	2015

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