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 Affliction	Marie Howe	2017
Frederick Douglass	Robert Hayden	2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem	Juan Felipe Herrera	2016
After Bombardment, Sonya	Ilya Kaminsky	2011
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day	John Dryden	1687
Part of Eve's Discussion	Marie Howe	1988
For Once, Then, Something	Robert Frost	1920
The Gladness of Nature	William Cullen Bryant	1832
Oh Who Is That Young Sinner	A. E. Housman	1937
The Letter	Amy Lowell	1915
Novel	Arthur Rimbaud	2002
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]	Christopher Smart	1939
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky	Joy Priest	2023
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.)	Langston Hughes	1926
brd	Anthony Cody	2020
Conscience	Henry David Thoreau	1895
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127)	William Shakespeare	1904
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62)	William Shakespeare	1904
The House of Hospitalities	Thomas Hardy	2018

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