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 Sun Has Long Been Set	William Wordsworth	1807
From “The Kitten and Falling Leaves”	William Wordsworth	1804
Self-Portrait	Adam Zagajewski	1997
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This	Hanif Abdurraqib	2018
Easter, 1916	W. B. Yeats	1921
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Anactoria Poem	Sappho	1949
To the Pine Tree	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	2020
An August Midnight	Thomas Hardy	1901
My Grandmother’s Love Letters	Hart Crane	1920
Arbolé, Arbolé . . .	Federico García Lorca	1955
The Charm of 5:30	David Berman	2013
God’s World	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
O, Gather Me the Rose	William Ernest Henley	1874
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With	Suzanne Rancourt	2004
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July	Billy Collins	1998
For every bird a nest (79)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Forest for the Trees	Rena Priest	2021

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