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
Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
The Bells	Guillaume Apollinaire	1913
Patience Taught by Nature	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2015
The Children’s Hour	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1860
A World Made By Atoms	Margaret Cavendish	1653
On Crime and Punishment	Kahlil Gibran	1923
little prayer	Danez Smith	2017
The First Snowfall	James Russell Lowell	1847
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
Let Evening Come	Jane Kenyon	1996
Ode to the Head Nod	Elizabeth Acevedo	2020
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50)	William Shakespeare	1904
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself	Wallace Stevens	1980
The Pulley	George Herbert	1633
Hum	Ann Lauterbach	2005
A Lesson for This Sunday	Derek Walcott	1986
[It was deep April, and the morn]	Michael Field	1893
Magdalene—The Seven Devils	Marie Howe	2016
Canto XIV	Ezra Pound	1934
A Decade	Amy Lowell	1921

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