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
To My Dear and Loving Husband	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
Instead of Depression	Andrea Gibson	2021
Knoxville, Tennessee	Nikki Giovanni	2016
Your Catfish Friend	Richard Brautigan	1989
Throwing Children	Ross Gay	2023
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
The Moose	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
The Patience of Ordinary Things	Pat Schneider	2019
Summer in the South	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
A Psalm of Life	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
The Sea Is History	Derek Walcott	2007
There was a child went forth every day	Walt Whitman	1900
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	Wilfred Owen	2018
Morning in the Burned House	Margaret Atwood	1995
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)	William Shakespeare	1904
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian	Ross Gay	2016
Love Comes Quietly	Robert Creeley	2016
If We Must Die	Claude McKay	1919
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]	John Keats	1818

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