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
Earth Day on the Bay	Gary Soto	2016
Love Poem	Susan Wheeler	2016
From “Morituri Salutamus”	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1900
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Cheerfulness Taught by Reason	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2015
Parties: A Hymn of Hate	Dorothy Parker	1916
Thoughts	Walt Whitman	1867
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
At the Equinox	Arthur Sze	2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon]	Tada Chimako	2010
The Seventh (A hetedik)	Attila József	1997
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
Winter Twilight	Anne Porter	2006
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Wishing Tree	Kathleen Jamie	2007
Bats	Paisley Rekdal	2007
Sex	Michael Ryan	2004
The Sun Underfoot Among the Sundews	Amy Clampitt	1997
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824

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