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
I’d Have You Think of Me	Djuna Barnes	1923
Nighthawks	Yusef Komunyakaa	2020
The Spring Has Many Silences	Laura Riding Jackson	1925
Some Melodious Plot	Anthony Borruso	2025
Wooden Window Frames	Luci Tapahonso	2024
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké	Angelina Weld Grimké	1914
Lying While Birding	Naomi Shihab Nye	2011
A Field of Finches Without Sight Still Singing	Grace Cavalieri	2019
Using Black to Paint Light: Walking Through a Matisse Exhibit Thinking about the Arctic and Matthew Henson	Robin Coste Lewis	2017
My Mother Would Be a Falconress	Robert Duncan	1968
A Night in Chicago	Maura Stanton	2025
An Adieu	Florence Earle Coates	1913
Gulls	William Carlos Williams	1917
Tender Buttons [Chicken]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Heron	Linda Hogan	2008
At the Spring Dawn	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
Each and All	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1847
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992
When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside	Donika Kelly	2024
Birdcall	Alicia Ostriker	2005

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