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
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
Self-Portrait in Charleston, Orlando	Dean Rader	2016
The Black Heralds	César Vallejo	1918
I Hear an Army	James Joyce	1914
Fear	Ciaran Carson	2001
The Border: A Double Sonnet	Alberto Ríos	2016
A Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2011
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love	June Jordan	2017
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
Futility	Wilfred Owen	1917
There’s a certain Slant of light (258)	Emily Dickinson	1951
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	Sir Walter Raleigh	1600
Dementia Is a New Way to Be Buddhist	Kelli Russell Agodon	2025
Silence	Edgar Allan Poe	1840
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	William Wordsworth	1800
My Lost Youth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
Gitanjali 2	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Anthropocene	Nomi Stone	2018
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
The Cowboy	James Tate	2008

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