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
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs]	Pablo Neruda	2016
The Kraken	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1830
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	1915
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
The Song of the Jellicles	T. S. Eliot	1939
You Foolish Men	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	2004
Leap Year Poem	Mother Goose	1719
Basket of Figs	Ellen Bass	2002
Variation on the Word Sleep	Margaret Atwood	1987
One Need Not be a Chamber — to be Haunted	Emily Dickinson	1900
Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	2016
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
Relax	Ellen Bass	2014
Anthem for Doomed Youth	Wilfred Owen	1920
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
The Land of Counterpane	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]	John Keats	1818
How to Triumph Like a Girl	Ada Limón	2018
His Excellency General Washington	Phillis Wheatley	1776

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