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
Ghost Music	Robert Graves	2016
When I Rise Up	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Mango Poem	Regie Cabico	2014
Detail of the Woods	Richard Siken	2011
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
Letter Home	Natasha Trethewey	2002
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt]	Aimé Césaire	2001
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog	Kaveh Akbar	2025
[There is no Life or Death,]	Mina Loy	1914
The Giver of Stars	Amy Lowell	1914
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
Aspiration	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1910
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652	John Milton	1667
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind	Carl Sandburg	1922
The Cows at Night	Hayden Carruth	2006
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner	Randall Jarrell	1969
Black Stone Lying On A White Stone	César Vallejo	1971

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