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
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful]	al-Khansāʾ	1922
At Night	Stanley Plumly	2019
OBIT [Memory]	Victoria Chang	2017
Mariposa	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
The Crypt Seed	Jackie Wang	2024
it won’t be a bullet	Danez Smith	2017
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing]	Bhanu Kapil	2008
Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything	Hanif Abdurraqib	2019
the bullet was a girl	Danez Smith	2015
No crowd that has occurred (111)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Sonnet XLIV	Charlotte Smith	2021
Nothing	Krysten Hill	2020
Holdfast	Robin Beth Schaer	2019
In Memory of M. B.	Anna Akhmatova	1973
The Shadow on the Stone	Thomas Hardy	1917
Etta’s Elegy	Maureen Seaton	2014
Lincoln	John Gould Fletcher	1917
41 [No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,]	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2018
The Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint)	Victoria Chang	2025

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