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
Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine	Amy E. King	2010
Graves We Filled Before the Fire	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2010
Haymaking	John Clare	1835
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
On Snow	Jonathan Swift	1857
I am Raftery the Poet	Anthony Raftery	1903
Caesarion	C. P. Cavafy	2008
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old]	Rudyard Kipling	1901
Epigrams: On my First Son	Ben Jonson	1616
Thanksgiving	Edgar Guest	1917
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Death Barged In	Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno	2009
corydon & alexis, redux	D. A. Powell	2009
In the Surgical Theatre	Dana Levin	1999
The Dusk of Horses	James Dickey	1992
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646
Further Notice	Philip Whalen	2008
A Reactionary Tale	Linh Dinh	2008
Anna, Thy Charms	Robert Burns	1788

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