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
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]	Jenny Boully	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl]	Jenny Boully	2008
Title It Shotgun Wound	Gregory Pardlo	2007
Copyright	Gregory Pardlo	2008
Atlantic City Sunday Morning	Gregory Pardlo	2007
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley	Jupiter Hammon	1787
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Early Affection	George Moses Horton	1865
Land’s End (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
The Park (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
Tranter in America (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!]	William Shakespeare	1608
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald]	William Shakespeare	1623
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Break, Break, Break	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
Lycidas	John Milton	1638
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609

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