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
Mary's Lamb	Sarah Josepha Hale	1830
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You	Natalie Diaz	2019
The Pomegranate	Eavan Boland	1994
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)]	Adrienne Rich	2016
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]	William Shakespeare	2016
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Two Loves	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
Leda and the Swan	W. B. Yeats	1923
Even the Rain	Agha Shahid Ali	2003
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Knoxville, Tennessee	Nikki Giovanni	2016
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti	1862
Throwing Children	Ross Gay	2023
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
Salt and Sand	Kathryn Kysar	2026
October	Helen Hunt Jackson	2015

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