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
A Chilly Night	Christina Rossetti	2018
Skull Song	Genevieve Taggard	1923
The Birds’ Lullaby	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
Before the Battle	Siegfried Sassoon	2018
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.)	Langston Hughes	1926
things that shine in the night	Rigoberto González	2016
A Song of Enchantment	Walter de la Mare	1913
The Flight of the Crows	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
Cenzontle	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
City Moon	Francisco Aragón	2016
Night Was Done	Mikhail Kuzmin	1921
The Eyes of My Regret	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
Moonrise	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2015
In Tall Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
In the Still, Star-Lit Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
The Death of the Old Year	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
Pulling the Moon	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
Hymn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Trayvon, Redux	Rita Dove	2013
With the Lark	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922

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