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
On His Deceased Wife	John Milton	1658
To My Mother	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
The Distant Moon	Rafael Campo	1994
Stanzas	Emily Brontë	1846
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour]	Thomas Wyatt	1557
Poetry	Richard Siken	2025
No crowd that has occurred (111)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Lost Bird	Carolina Coronado	1878
Wind	Gwendolyn Bennett	1924
brd	Anthony Cody	2020
[’Tis the first snow—]	Matsuo Bashō	1899
The Women’s Litany	Margaret Widdemer	2018
My 24 Hour Version	Lois Red Elk	2017
Irony	Layli Long Soldier	2016
By the Stream	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1900
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Lines on a Skull	Ravi Shankar	2012
My life has been the poem I would have writ	Henry David Thoreau	1849
El Florida Room	Richard Blanco	2012

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