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
August	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1887
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	William Cullen Bryant	2014
For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen	Jane Hirshfield	2011
Alternate Endings to Shania Twain’s “That Don’t Impress Me Much” Music Video	Canese Jarboe	2026
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind	Thomas Wyatt	1550
A Mystery	James Ephraim McGirt	1906
On the Three Forms of Water	Campbell McGrath	2021
Senlin: A Biography (Part I, Section II)	Conrad Aiken	1918
let grow more winter fat / wine-cup / western wild rose	Camille T. Dungy	2023
Winter: A Dirge	Robert Burns	1786
Youth	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Grey Skies	Elsa Gidlow	1923
Pedal	Jenny Johnson	2020
Sonnet XLIV [For Thee the Sun Doth Daily Rise, and Set]	George Santayana	1896
Hundreds of Purple Octopus Moms Are Super Weird, and They’re Doomed	January Gill O’Neil	2019
Sonnet	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	1922
The Magpie's Shadow	Yvor Winters	1922
A Poem	Robert Creeley	2006
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain	Gabeba Baderoon	2026
Cape Tenaron	Katerina Iliopoulou	2025

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