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 Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)	Victoria Chang	2025
Gone is Gone	Mark Wunderlich	2019
Love the Light-Giver	Michelangelo Buonarroti	1897
Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors	Richard Siken	2014
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Painting vs. Poetry	Bill Knott	2017
The Great Figure	William Carlos Williams	1962
Pietà	Rainer Maria Rilke	1922
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise	Diane Seuss	2018
A Mona Lisa	Angelina Weld Grimké	1927
Poppy Field	Victoria Chang	2026
Art Project: Earth	Karen Skolfield	2016
The Man with the Hoe	Edwin Markham	1898
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
Evolution	Margaret Ross	2020
[to keep knowing]	Aracelis Girmay	2023
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
Trans Study: Untitled 4 (Facial Expression)	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2023
A Painter’s Thoughts	John Yau	2020

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