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
little prayer	Danez Smith	2017
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)	Craig Santos Perez	2017
Enigma	Leonora Speyer	1921
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra	Marilyn Chin	1987
I Have this Way of Being	Jamaal May	2016
Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship	Camonghne Felix	2023
Ode to the Confederate Dead	Allen Tate	1937
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
Résumé	Dorothy Parker	1926
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding	Beth Ann Fennelly	2021
Coherence in Consequence	Claudia Rankine	2017
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
Devotion	Tracy K. Smith	2026
“We As Women”	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
The Sentry	Wilfred Owen	2018
The Dance	Wendell Berry	2016
Darkness	George Gordon Byron	1816
Easter, 1916	W. B. Yeats	1921

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