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
The Vanity of Human Wishes	Samuel Johnson	2018
A Song for Merry Harvest	Eliza Cook	2017
The Desolate Field	William Carlos Williams	1921
My Childhood Home I See Again	Abraham Lincoln	1847
Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
The Sandman	Margaret Thomson Janvier	1912
The Sciences Sing a Lullabye	Albert Goldbarth	2007
R.I.P., My Love	Tory Dent	1999
Gitanjali 36	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Barbara Frietchie	John Greenleaf Whittier	1894
Dogwood Blossoms	George Marion McClellan	1922
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window	W. B. Yeats	1924
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim	Walt Whitman	2017
For My Mother	May Sarton	2016
Eulogy	Kevin Young	2011
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
Workshop	Billy Collins	1995
This Was Once a Love Poem	Jane Hirshfield	2001
Once the World Was Perfect	Joy Harjo	2018

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