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
Three Fragments of Instan	Cecilia Vicuña	2002
At the Gym	Mark Doty	2002
What Was Told, That	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2002
Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer	Campbell McGrath	2002
A Perfume	John Koethe	2002
Prayer	Jorie Graham	2002
A Farewell to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
On My First Son	Ben Jonson	1603
Question	May Swenson	1978
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)	William Shakespeare	1609
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing	Margaret Atwood	1995
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.	Amy Lowell	1914
The Letter	Amy Lowell	1915
Astigmatism	Amy Lowell	1914
The Slave Mother	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
Songs for the People	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1896
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penitential Cries	Jupiter Hammon	1760
Driving in Circles with the Blind	Sandra McPherson	2002
Fame is a fickle food (1659)	Emily Dickinson	1957

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