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
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
May	Helen Hunt Jackson	1892
Jaguar	Lola Ridge	1920
On Retirement	Philip Freneau	1786
On a Honey Bee, Drinking from a Glass of Wine, and Drowned Therein	Philip Freneau	1809
On The Death Of Dr. Benjamin Franklin	Philip Freneau	1790
From A Book of Hours	Maureen N. McLane	2020
The Indian Burying Ground	Philip Freneau	1795
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d.	Mark Twain	1885
Pestilence	Philip Freneau	1795
El Arpa, a Mexican Lynching, No. 53	Anthony Cody	2020
This Morning	Luci Tapahonso	2020
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
Waiting for a Number	Peter Balakian	2020
Green Flame	Pamela Uschuk	2020
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies]	Aracelis Girmay	2020
An Epitaph for Little Children	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Amanda’s Inventory	Julia Ward Howe	1899
The Telegrams	Julia Ward Howe	1899
Pardon	Julia Ward Howe	1999

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