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
A Spring Morning	John Clare	1835
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; (Sonnet 113)	William Shakespeare	1094
The Hill	Rupert Brooke	2018
Fatigue	Amy Lowell	2018
The Ghost	Frank Bidart	2018
Post-Diagnosis	Sam Sax	2017
The Affliction	Marie Howe	2017
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
Vivien’s Song	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	2017
The Exposed Nest	Robert Frost	2016
I saw a man pursuing the horizon	Stephen Crane	2013
An August Midnight	Thomas Hardy	1901
Idyll	Siegfried Sassoon	1920
Providence	Natasha Trethewey	2006
Father’s Song	Gregory Orr	2002
In View of the Fact	A. R. Ammons	2005
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
Momentum	Catherine Doty	2005
Boaz Asleep	Victor Hugo	2001
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55)	William Shakespeare	1609

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