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
It’s a Long Way	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
Self	James Oppenheim	1916
Heritage Emissary	Threa Almontaser	2020
Had the Vines Budded, Were the Pomegranates in Bloom	S. Brook Corfman	2019
The Task of Naming Me	Sharon Olds	2019
The Floral Apron	Marilyn Chin	2019
Fragmentary Blue	Robert Frost	1923
A Spring Morning	John Clare	1835
Prelude: The Troops	Siegfried Sassoon	2018
Impression du Voyage	Oscar Wilde	2018
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
The Coliseum	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror	Mary Jo Bang	2017
Coherence in Consequence	Claudia Rankine	2017
Native Memory	Ansel Elkins	2016
I Hear You Call, Pine Tree	Yone Noguchi	2016
Advice to a Blue-Bird	Maxwell Bodenheim	2015
Another Poem	Geoffrey G. O’Brien	2015
Bound	Aline Murray Kilmer	2014
Like Any Good American	Brynn Saito	2013

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