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
O, from what power hast thou this powerful might (Sonnet 150)	William Shakespeare	1904
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said (Sonnet 56)	William Shakespeare	1904
When I do count the clock that tells the time (Sonnet 12)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)	William Shakespeare	1904
Sonku [what i want]	Sonia Sanchez	2018
Rhapsody	William Stanley Braithwaite	1904
Poem from Hölderlin	Susan Stewart	2017
The Christmas Holly	Eliza Cook	2017
The City is Peopled	H.D.	2017
Comrades Four	Claude McKay	2017
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6)	William Shakespeare	2016
Galway Races	W. B. Yeats	2016
Saturday	Margaret Ross	2016
Pilate’s Wife’s Dream	Charlotte Brontë	1846
All the Trees of the Field Shall Clap Their Hands	Eduardo C. Corral	2016
1905	Marilyn Nelson	2015
From “Citizen,” VI [I knew whatever was in front of me was happening]	Claudia Rankine	2014
After Dinner	Lisa Pegram	2015
For Trayvon Martin	Reuben Jackson	2015
The Fire	Katie Ford	2014

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