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
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]	William Shakespeare	1603
Lady Lazarus	Sylvia Plath	1981
Ulysses	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Ulysses [excerpt]	James Joyce	1922
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]	William Shakespeare	2016
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world]	William Shakespeare	2017
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]	William Shakespeare	2016
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	Robert Browning	1842
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?]	William Shakespeare	2016
Sappho	Sara Teasdale	1911
My Last Duchess	Robert Browning	1842
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter]	William Shakespeare	2016
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last]	William Shakespeare	2017
Miracles	Giannina Braschi	2011

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