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 Photograph Suggests a Hidden Life	Susan Rich	2018
Lo! as a careful housewife run to catch (Sonnet 143)	William Shakespeare	1904
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)	William Shakespeare	1904
Niobe	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1893
Desire	Helen Hoyt	1917
Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	Maggie Smith	2018
Grasses	Alfred Kreymborg	1920
Diaspora Sonnet 25	Oliver de la Paz	2018
The Anesthesia of Abstraction	Teddy Macker	2018
To Science	Edgar Allan Poe	1902
The Starling	Amy Lowell	2018
Arthritis	Carol Moldaw	2018
The End of a Beginning	Marilyn Chin	1987
In the Beginning God Said Light	Mary Szybist	2018
Rhapsody	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
From “feeld”	Jos Charles	2018
Song for the New Year	Eliza Cook	1840
A Poem as Long as California	Rick Barot	2017

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