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
Alone	Maya Angelou	1975
The New Colossus	Emma Lazarus	2018
Birches	Robert Frost	1916
The World Is Too Much With Us	William Wordsworth	1807
On the Pulse of Morning	Maya Angelou	1993
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1798
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
I cannot live with You (640)	Emily Dickinson	1951
We Wear the Mask	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1896
Design	Robert Frost	1916
A Shropshire Lad, XL	A. E. Housman	1896
His Excellency General Washington	Phillis Wheatley	1776
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20	Homer	2000
Song of Myself, 52	Walt Whitman	1891
Sailing to Byzantium	W. B. Yeats	1928
My Last Duchess	Robert Browning	1842
A Visit from St. Nicholas	Clement Clarke Moore	1823
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)	Nikki Giovanni	2017
The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams	1962

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