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
The Body Remembers	Yusef Komunyakaa	2019
The Ocean	Nathaniel Hawthorne	1825
The Angel that presided o’er my birth	William Blake	1908
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve	Adrienne Rich	2011
The Pumpkin	John Greenleaf Whittier	1850
February	Tamiko Beyer	2022
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
Suddenly	Sharon Olds	2013
Burning the Old Year	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry	Howard Nemerov	1980
Song to Celia	Ben Jonson	1616
Gitanjali 56	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
How to Apologize	Ellen Bass	2021
In Praise of Dreams	Gary Soto	2020
Crossing	Jericho Brown	2019
Post Impressions (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Happiness	Jane Kenyon	2001
A Supermarket in California	Allen Ginsberg	1984
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]	William Shakespeare	1623
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks	Jane Kenyon	1986

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