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
On the Death of Anne Brontë	Charlotte Brontë	2016
Meditation for the Silence of Morning	Adam Clay	2016
All the Names We Will Not Know	Naomi Shihab Nye	2015
Aspiration	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1910
A Violin at Dusk	Lizette Woodworth Reese	1920
A Greek Island	Edward Hirsch	2013
I like to see it lap the Miles (43)	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Hug	Thom Gunn	2009
A Shropshire Lad, II	A. E. Housman	1896
Old Black Men	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
Sonnet 1	Gwendolyn Bennett	1927
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Sorrow of Love	W. B. Yeats	1893
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
Hum	Ann Lauterbach	2005
Patsy Sees a Ghost	Lola Haskins	2004
Hymn to the Night	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55)	William Shakespeare	1609
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98)	William Shakespeare	1609
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun	Heather McHugh	1999

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