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
Of Love: A Sonnet	Robert Herrick	1648
Gitanjali 18	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd	Walt Whitman	1891
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
The House on the Hill	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
Adonais, 49–52, [Go thou to Rome]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1821
Father’s Love	Jewel Rodgers	2026
The Fifteenth of September	Manuel Acuña	1892
Sometimes There Is A Day	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
Chile’s Land	Gabriela Mistral	2003
The Trial by Existence	Robert Frost	1915
Ghazal	Tracy K. Smith	2018
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’	Danez Smith	2017
The Death of Eve	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2026
The Sleeper	Edgar Allan Poe	1846
Tableau	Countee Cullen	1925
“You and I Are Disappearing”	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
Home	Carl Sandburg	1916

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