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 Strange Hours Travelers Keep	August Kleinzahler	2003
Landing Under Water, I See Roots	Annie Finch	2003
Smoke	Henry David Thoreau	1843
Inspiration	Henry David Thoreau	1895
Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf	Henry David Thoreau	1842
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	Julia Ward Howe	1862
[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome]	Christina Rossetti	1881
To My Mother	Christina Rossetti	1842
To My Mother	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Mother o’ Mine	Rudyard Kipling	1892
To My Mother	Edgar Allan Poe	1849
Round	Tom Sleigh	2007
Day Job and Night Job	Andrew Hudgins	2003
Heat	Denis Johnson	1994
Surreptitious Kissing	Denis Johnson	1994
The White Fires of Venus	Denis Johnson	1994
Pilgrimage	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Providence	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Concordance [Our conversation is a wing]	Mei-mei Berssenbrugge	2006
Flood	Miyazawa Kenji	2007

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