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
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
How Palestinians Keep Warm	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
Taking Down the Tree	Jane Kenyon	2005
The Hammock	Li-Young Lee	2001
Modern Declaration	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Arabic	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
Thinking of Madame Bovary	Jane Kenyon	2005
Eating Alone	Li-Young Lee	1986
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
the lost baby poem	Lucille Clifton	1991
Three Songs at the End of Summer	Jane Kenyon	2005
Arise, Go Down	Li-Young Lee	1990
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
to my last period	Lucille Clifton	1991
Afternoon at MacDowell	Jane Kenyon	2005
Humoresque	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
poem in praise of menstruation	Lucille Clifton	1991
Christmas Away from Home	Jane Kenyon	2005
Inert Perfection	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
poem to my uterus	Lucille Clifton	1991

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