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
Reading to My Father	Jorie Graham	2016
Willow Poem	William Carlos Williams	2014
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
The Graduate Leaving College	George Moses Horton	1845
Reluctance	Robert Frost	1913
A Man’s A Man For A’ That	Robert Burns	1795
My Lost Youth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
Winter-Time	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
The Shapes of Leaves	Arthur Sze	1998
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962
When the Neighbor Boys Gathered	Hieu Minh Nguyen	2014
Blue-Butterfly Day	Robert Frost	1923
[An ancient pond!]	Matsuo Bashō	1899
The World-Soul	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1847
Prayer	Galway Kinnell	2018
Dusk in Autumn	Sara Teasdale	2017
The Blue Dress	Saeed Jones	2017
The Flight	Sara Teasdale	1915
elegy for kari edwards	Julian Talamantez Brolaski	2011
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves”	William Wordsworth	1804

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