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 Centenarian’s Story	Walt Whitman
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Lost Dog	Ellen Bass	2018
Ethel’s Sestina	Patricia Smith	2018
A Patch of Old Snow	Robert Frost	2018
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker	John Olivares Espinoza	2017
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love	Katie Willingham	2017
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Daily	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Naming the land	Elana Bell	2011
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
Art Class	James Galvin	1997
My First Memory (of Librarians)	Nikki Giovanni	2007
A Hand	Jane Hirshfield	2001
California Plush	Frank Bidart	1973
A Negro Love Song	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1896
Heart's Needle	W. D. Snodgrass	2006
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	Walt Whitman	1891

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