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
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
[O were my love yon Lilac fair]	Robert Burns	1793
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
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You	Natalie Diaz	2019
Love Comes Quietly	Robert Creeley	2016
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Two Loves	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Song of the Open Road, 1	Walt Whitman	2016
Anthem for Doomed Youth	Wilfred Owen	1920
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti	1862
Knoxville, Tennessee	Nikki Giovanni	2016
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Afterwards	Thomas Hardy	1917
Throwing Children	Ross Gay	2023

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