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
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion]	Petrarch	2004
Sonnet 6	Rainer Maria Rilke	2004
79	Joachim du Bellay	2003
Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck (Sonnet 14)	William Shakespeare	1609
A Certain Slant of Sunlight	Ted Berrigan	1994
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29)	William Shakespeare	1609
At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)	John Donne	1633
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55)	William Shakespeare	1609
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Sonnets on Love XIII	Jean de Sponde	2001
Sonnet for Salvadore	Gary Miranda	2001
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)	William Shakespeare	1609
the sonnet-ballad	Gwendolyn Brooks	1949
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802	William Wordsworth	1807
God's Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)	John Donne	1633
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)	William Shakespeare	1609
Sonnet Substantially Like the Words of F Rodriguez One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line	Jack Agüeros	1991

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