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
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
Good Grief	KB Brookins	2022
Amores (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Snake	D. H. Lawrence
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]	William Shakespeare	2016
Where Go the Boats?	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
To Roosevelt	Rubén Darío	1903
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]	John Keats	1817
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)	Craig Santos Perez	2017
To All My Friends	May Yang	2017
Summer Night, Riverside	Sara Teasdale	1915
The Soul unto itself (683)	Emily Dickinson	1951
A Clear Midnight	Walt Whitman	1891
The Waking	Theodore Roethke	2017
For Once, Then, Something	Robert Frost	1920
Emergency Haying	Hayden Carruth	2006
i love you to the moon &	Chen Chen	2021
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
the earth is a living thing	Lucille Clifton	1991
The Children’s Hour	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1860

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