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
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
On Giving	Kahlil Gibran	1923
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
blessing the boats	Lucille Clifton	2001
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
From “Nox” [gentes]	Anne Carson	2010
Sympathy	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
I heard a Fly buzz (465)	Emily Dickinson	1998
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Wait	Galway Kinnell	2016
To You	Walt Whitman	1891
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	1817
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
No!	Thomas Hood	1844
To a Skylark	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820
Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	2016

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