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
Lot’s Wife	Anna Akhmatova	1973
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015	Susan Briante	2010
Forever is composed of Nows (25)	Emily Dickinson	1929
From “Nox” [mutam]	Anne Carson	2010
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Snail	William Cowper	1731
Red Brocade	Naomi Shihab Nye	2014
Spirits of the Dead	Edgar Allan Poe	1829
Match	Jason Reynolds	2020
Into My Own	Robert Frost	2018
What Was Told, That	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2002
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing	Margaret Atwood	1995
A Journey	Nikki Giovanni	2016
Butter	Elizabeth Alexander	2017
sisters	Lucille Clifton	1989
The Blower of Leaves	January Gill O’Neil	2014
To a Locomotive in Winter	Walt Whitman	1891
Break, Break, Break	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
There is no frigate like a book (1263)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To My Mother	Edgar Allan Poe	1849

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