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
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms	Hayan Charara	2015
Matrimonial Toast	Ken White	2014
The Living Beauty	W. B. Yeats	1919
Electricity	Geoffrey Nutter	2009
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?]	Petrarch	1375
Peace	Henry Vaughan	1650
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	Sir Walter Scott	1816
A Man may make a Remark (952)	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Wishing Tree	Kathleen Jamie	2007
Sex	Michael Ryan	2004
Sitting Outside	W. D. Snodgrass	2006
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
The Two	Philip Levine	2002
Water Picture	May Swenson	1994
Blue	May Swenson	1994
Words	Dana Gioia	2001

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