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
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646
The Sun Rising	John Donne	1635
The Garden	Andrew Marvell	1681
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
Upon Julia's Clothes	Robert Herrick	1670
The Solitary Reaper	William Wordsworth	1807
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
The Good-Morrow	John Donne	1633
On His Deceased Wife	John Milton	1658
On Time	John Milton	1645
Peace	Henry Vaughan	1650
The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Song on May Morning	John Milton	1645
Break, Break, Break	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
Lycidas	John Milton	1638
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Mr. Flood's Party	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1921
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
Quindecagon (audio only)	Ron Silliman	2008

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