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
Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love	Katie Willingham	2017
The Captured Goddess	Amy Lowell	2016
Endymion	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2016
On the Death of Anne Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
From “Citizen,” I [A woman you do not know wants to join you for lunch]	Claudia Rankine	2014
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
Daily	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Naming the land	Elana Bell	2011
From “Mean Free Path”	Ben Lerner	2010
From	A. Van Jordan	2004
My First Memory (of Librarians)	Nikki Giovanni	2007
The Poem as Mask	Muriel Rukeyser	2004
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100	Martín Espada	2003
The Two	Philip Levine	2002
In Memory of M. B.	Anna Akhmatova	1973
Salt Song	Arthur Sze	2021
The Bridge	Elisa Gabbert	2025
Just the other day,	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
At the Mid Hour of Night	Thomas Moore	1903

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