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
Mr. Grumpledump’s Song	Shel Silverstein	2004
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43)	William Shakespeare	1904
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards	Kaveh Akbar	2017
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
El Dorado	Edgar Allan Poe	1849
Amores (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Love Opened a Mortal Wound	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	1997
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
Barbara Frietchie	John Greenleaf Whittier	1894
Song of Nature	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
On Beauty	Kahlil Gibran	1923
We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born	Oscar Gonzales	2016
To Think of Time	Walt Whitman	1855
The Merry-Go-Round	Aldous Huxley	1918
The morning after I die	Ana Blandiana	2022
The Chimney-Sweeper	William Blake	1789
A Woman Is Talking to Death	Judy Grahn	2016
Hyperion	John Keats	1820
The Rider	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918

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