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
Remembrance	Emily Brontë	1845
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer	John Keats	1816
[to keep knowing]	Aracelis Girmay	2023
Barbara Frietchie	John Greenleaf Whittier	1894
The Heart of the Tree	Henry Cuyler Bunner	1912
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
The Courtship of Miles Standish	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
Comrades Four	Claude McKay	2017
Forever is composed of Nows (25)	Emily Dickinson	1929
We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra	Marilyn Chin	1987
Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names	Assétou Xango	2017
Tell Me a Story	Robert Penn Warren	1985
Gitanjali 35	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	John Milton	1655
Trace Evidence	Charif Shanahan	2023
To Think of Time	Walt Whitman	1855
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'	Agha Shahid Ali	1987
On Teaching	Kahlil Gibran	1923
From Blossoms	Li-Young Lee	1986

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