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
What is your substance, whereof are you made (Sonnet 53)	William Shakespeare	1904
How careful was I, when I took my way (Sonnet 48)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits (Sonnet 41)	William Shakespeare	1904
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; (Sonnet 40)	William Shakespeare	1904
No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: (Sonnet 35)	William Shakespeare	1904
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day (Sonnet 34)	William Shakespeare	1904
If thou survive my well-contended day (Sonnet 32)	William Shakespeare	1904
When I do count the clock that tells the time (Sonnet 12)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Broken Tablets	Rodger Kamenetz	2018
Look in thy glass, and tell the faces thou viewest (Sonnet 3)	William Shakespeare	1904
Then I Packed You Up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back	Joe Wilkins	2018
Mosquitoland	Nikki Wallschlaeger	2018
The Poem as Epiphyte	Fady Joudah	2018
From “In Pieces”	Rosmarie Waldrop	2015
Evening Sun	Rosmarie Waldrop	2003
Not a Description	Rosmarie Waldrop	1998
Pleasure Principle	Rosmarie Waldrop	1998
from “Inserting the Mirror”	Rosmarie Waldrop	1987
Peacock Island	Jennifer Kronovet	2018
portraitures and erasures	Chiwan Choi	2018

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