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 am the People, the Mob	Carl Sandburg	1916
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth	Phillis Wheatley	1773
United	Naomi Shihab Nye	2016
there aren’t enough idioms about the stars	Keith S. Wilson	2025
New American	Huascar Medina	2020
Flags	Elana Bell	2011
To The Memory Of The Brave Americans	Philip Freneau	1783
[the fourth of July – is Surely come]	David Drake	1859
The American Soldier	Philip Freneau	1790
Old South Meeting House	January Gill O’Neil	2016
In Our Late Empire, Love	Malachi Black	2014
Day of the Refugios	Alberto Ríos	1994
A Political Litany	Philip Freneau	1775
Naming the land	Elana Bell	2011
The Continental Army	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Lincoln	John Gould Fletcher	1917
National Laureate	Robert Fitterman	2009
Eliza Harris	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Independence Day (audio only)	Gerald Stern	2011

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