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
Iris of Life	Zitkála-Šá	1898
Bright Star	John Keats	1838
The Good-Morrow	John Donne	1633
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Home Is so Sad	Philip Larkin	1988
The Coming of Light	Mark Strand	2002
Nine Spice Mix	Zeina Azzam	2022
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Tender Buttons [Objects]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)]	Adrienne Rich	2016
A Red, Red Rose	Robert Burns	1794
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
Facing It	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
Halloween	Robert Burns	1785
That’s the Job	Edward Hirsch	2018

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