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
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart]	William Cowper	1779
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866	John Milton	1667
The Task, Book I, The Sofa [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Nothing in That Drawer	Ron Padgett	1990
The Cruel Mother	Anonymous	1690
Come, said my Soul	Walt Whitman	1874
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Olney Hymns, XLVIII [Joy and Peace in Believing]	William Cowper	1779
Olney Hymns, I, [Walking with God]	William Cowper	1779
The Secret of Light	James Wright	1990
The Yoke	Frank Bidart	1997
The Branches	Jean Valentine	2009
Red Cloth	Jean Valentine	2009
Noisetone	Barbara Guest	2008
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Daniel Boone	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
Metropolitan Nightmare	Stephen Vincent Benét	1933
John Brown's Body [There were three stout pillars that held up all]	Stephen Vincent Benét	1927
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain	James Wright	1992

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