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
The Healing Improvisation of Hair	Jay Wright	2000
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	Andrew Marvell	1681
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
We Have Been Friends Together	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	1840
The Undying One, Canto I	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	1830
Poet as Immortal Bird	Ron Padgett	2001
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
Words from the Front	Ron Padgett	2007
The Uses of Poetry	William Carlos Williams	1909
Rialto	Ron Padgett	2007
Fairy Tale	Ron Padgett	2001
The Iliad, Book XVIII, [The Shield of Achilles]	Homer	1715
Purgatorio, Canto X	Dante Alighieri	1867
Vigo Martin	Victor Hernández Cruz	2006
The Lower East Side of Manhattan	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Peace on Earth	William Carlos Williams	1917
Latin & Soul	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Love	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1826
The White Rose	John Boyle O'Reilly	1886

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