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
At Night	Stanley Plumly	2019
Mariposa	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything	Hanif Abdurraqib	2019
it won’t be a bullet	Danez Smith	2017
Tuesday 9/11/01	Lucille Clifton	2017
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]	al-Khansāʾ	1922
Nothing	Krysten Hill	2020
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing]	Bhanu Kapil	2008
the bullet was a girl	Danez Smith	2015
In Memory of M. B.	Anna Akhmatova	1973
No crowd that has occurred (111)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Lincoln	John Gould Fletcher	1917
Sonnet XLIV	Charlotte Smith	2021
Holdfast	Robin Beth Schaer	2019
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
And That Mysterious Word Holy	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
The Grave of Shelley	Oscar Wilde	2018
Spoils of the Dead	Robert Frost	1915
Naming the Baby	Yesenia Montilla	2021

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