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
In-between the sun and moon	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147)	William Shakespeare	1904
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right	Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz	2017
Pokeberries	Ruth Stone	2017
Magdalene	Marie Howe	2013
it was a dream	Lucille Clifton	1992
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
In the Library	Charles Simic	2008
Starlight	William Meredith	1997
The Lemon Trees	Eugenio Montale	2002
To a Young Poet	Zaina Alsous	2025
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	2022
Change on Change	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1846
Pictures of Memory	Alice Cary	1903
Childhood Memories	William Saphier	1920
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say	Danez Smith	2019
The Fool’s Song	William Carlos Williams	2017
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter]	William Shakespeare	2016
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz	Matthew Olzmann	2016
What Changes	Naomi Shihab Nye	2015

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