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
Song of Myself, 48	Walt Whitman	2017
Smell!	William Carlos Williams	1917
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale]	William Shakespeare	1596
After the Movie	Marie Howe	2008
Put Out My Eyes	Rainer Maria Rilke	1905
After great pain a formal feeling comes — (175)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Lost Breath of Trees	Colleen J. McElroy	2024
A Song of the Road	José Santos Chocano	1920
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
our happiness	Eileen Myles	2014
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72	Charles Harper Webb	2010
The Shapes of Leaves	Arthur Sze	1998
Furry Bear	A. A. Milne	1927
All I Ever Wanted	Katie Ford	2017
The Sound of the Trees	Robert Frost	1916
America	Claude McKay	1921
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)	William Shakespeare	1609
Mount Popocatepetl	Manuel Carpio	1892
Song of Myself, 2	Walt Whitman	2019

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