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
If there be nothing new, but that which is (Sonnet 59)	William Shakespeare	1904
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Sonnet [XXXIV]	Charles Hamilton Sorley	1919
The Shropshire Lad, III	A. E. Housman	2018
Niobe	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1893
Pain Scale	Catherine Barnett	2018
The Ghost’s Petition	Christina Rossetti	2018
Bear Witness	Tiana Clark	2018
Sexy poem to cover my bases	Emily Hunerwadel	2018
But My Chains	Kyle Dargan	2018
Grasses	Alfred Kreymborg	1920
Beginnings	Mahtem Shiferraw	2018
First Wedding Dance	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2018
How Like the Sea	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1902
Christmas Comes Again	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
The Banner of the Jew	Emma Lazarus	2017
When You Leave	Twyla M. Hansen	2017
In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife	Megan Fernandes	2017

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