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
Sara in Her Father’s Arms	George Oppen	2008
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
A Suggested Campaign Song	Alice Duer Miller	1915
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters	Oscar Wilde	1886
As Toilsome I Wander’d Virginia’s Woods	Walt Whitman
What We Cannot Hear	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24)	William Shakespeare	1904
The House of Ghosts	Margaret Widdemer	2018
Poetry	Claude McKay	1922
Wild Pansy	Lisa Bellamy	2018
Nondisabled Demands	The Cyborg Jillian Weise	2018
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman]	Terrance Hayes	2017
the dark tree, the cold sea	Emily Fragos	2017
Where Honey Comes From	Maggie Smith	2017
Modern Love	John Keats	2016
[we fight back to control the outside]	kari edwards	2016
From Tanka Diary	Harryette Mullen	2014
Tackle Football	Dan Chiasson	2013
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	T. S. Eliot	1920
Textbook & Absence (Anatomy)	Catherine Barnett	2012

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