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 Wound-Dresser	Walt Whitman	1891
A Casualty List	Mary Carolyn Davies	1918
At Bay	Carl Phillips	2013
Beach Landing, Iwo Jima	Tony Barnstone	2009
Before the Deployment	Jehanne Dubrow	2010
Spoken from the Hedgerows	Jorie Graham	2005
The Battle Autumn of 1862	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
Three Mathew Brady Photographs	Eric Pankey	2014
Youth	Tom Sleigh	2019
Armature	Deborah Paredez	2020
The Encounter with the Goddess	Alicia Ostriker	2020
Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon Over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes	Jane Hirshfield	2020
Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France	Alan Seeger	2017
War Rug	Henri Cole	2013
At the Retirement Home	Tony Barnstone	2009
Little Lead Soldiers	Giannina Braschi	1988
La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted.	Rita Dove	2017
Memorial Day	Clara Ann Thompson	1908
Before Marching, and After	Thomas Hardy	1916
In the Absence of Sparrows	Daniel Johnson	2014

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