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 Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard]	William Shakespeare	1622
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
Tender Buttons [Objects]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909
It Is a Small Plant	William Carlos Williams	1920
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now	Matthew Olzmann	2017
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
Afternoon on a Hill	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald	Sonia Sanchez	2018
Wait	Galway Kinnell	2016
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
The Gate	Marie Howe	2017
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be	John Keats	1848
Ulysses [excerpt]	James Joyce	1922
There was a child went forth every day	Walt Whitman	1900
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Song of the Shirt	Thomas Hood	1843
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600

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