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
When Christmas Comes	Libbie C. Baer	2018
Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes (Sonnet 137)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those lines that I before have writ do lie (Sonnet 115)	William Shakespeare	1904
When in the chronicle of wasted time (Sonnet 106)	William Shakespeare	1904
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took (Sonnet 47)	William Shakespeare	1904
Let me confess that we two must be twain. (Sonnet 36)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Marriage We Carried in Our Pockets	Doug Ramspeck	2018
Field Manœuvres	Richard Aldington	2018
The Grave of Shelley	Oscar Wilde	2018
From “Romance”	Chelsey Minnis	2018
It Was Summer Now and the Colored People Came Out Into the Sunshine	Morgan Parker	2018
Children Listen	Roger Reeves	2018
Amid the Roses	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	1895
Roof Nightclub	Ishion Hutchinson	2018
say it with your whole black mouth	Danez Smith	2018
Hide and Seek	Charles Simic	2018
Night at the Roller Palace	January Gill O’Neil	2018
How to Make a Crab Cake	January Gill O’Neil	2009
The Sleeping Husband	Monica Ferrell	2018
You’re really faithful to your abusers, aren’t you?	Samiya Bashir	2018

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