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
Hotel	Ron Padgett	2016
Experience	Carl Sandburg	2016
The Young Poets of Winnipeg	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
To Hope	Charlotte Smith	2016
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
From “Citizen,” IV [To live through the days sometimes you moan like deer]	Claudia Rankine	2014
From Tanka Diary	Harryette Mullen	2014
Aunt Helen	T. S. Eliot	1915
Ghazal: In Silence	Mimi Khalvati	2013
Tender Buttons [Milk]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Camp of No Return	James Tate	2012
The Magi	W. B. Yeats	1914
Vertical	Linda Pastan	2010
The Emperor	Matthew Rohrer	2010
This is Lagos	John Koethe	2009
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard	1557
Snow Song	Frank Dempster Sherman	1897
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
A Noun Sentence	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650

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