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 Dead-Beat	Wilfred Owen	2018
The Conqueror Worm	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance	Kaveh Akbar	2018
Four-Leaf Clover	Ella Higginson	2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
My Mama moved among the days	Lucille Clifton	2017
Love	Rupert Brooke	2017
Endymion	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2016
A Love	Lorenzo Calogero	2013
In drear nighted December	John Keats	1817
I like to see it lap the Miles (43)	Emily Dickinson	1890
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all]	Stephen Vincent Benét	1927
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems	James Tate	1991
The Sleep	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1838
Madam and Her Madam	Langston Hughes	1994
Whatever the ways of the world,	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Grandfather	A. Van Jordan	2022
Ghazal of Oranges	Jan-Henry Gray	2022
The Art of Shooting in the Dark	Denice Frohman	2022
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation	Anthony Cody	2022

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