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
Poem to First Love	Matthew Yeager	2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
Gitanjali 12	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Song of Myself, 7	Walt Whitman	1891
On Eating and Drinking	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Song for the Turtles in the Gulf	Linda Hogan	2016
The Sound of the Trees	Robert Frost	1916
O, Gather Me the Rose	William Ernest Henley	1874
October (section I)	Louise Glück	2004
The Shapes of Leaves	Arthur Sze	1998
Fear	Ciaran Carson	2001
My Loves	Langston Hughes	1922
Song of Myself, 31	Walt Whitman	1891
In the City	Chen Chen	2017
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
Whoroscope	Samuel Beckett	1930
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love	June Jordan	2017
Fall, Leaves, Fall	Emily Brontë	2017
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
Cross-Armed	Elvira Hernández	2026

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