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	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	1995
From “Nox” [gentes]	Anne Carson	2010
blessing the boats	Lucille Clifton	2001
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
On Giving	Kahlil Gibran	1923
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sympathy	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
I heard a Fly buzz (465)	Emily Dickinson	1998
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
To You	Walt Whitman	1891
Wait	Galway Kinnell	2016
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	1817
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
To a Skylark	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820
Sci-Fi	Tracy K. Smith	2011
Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	2016
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609

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