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
Those lips that Love’s own hand did make (Sonnet 145)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, how I faint when I of you do write (Sonnet 80)	William Shakespeare	1904
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect (Sonnet 70)	William Shakespeare	1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts (Sonnet 31)	William Shakespeare	1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)	William Shakespeare	1904
To My Ward-Sister	Vera Brittain	2018
rite	Anne Waldman	2018
Desire	Helen Hoyt	1917
Sculpture with Fragments of Stuart Hall	Christian Campbell	2018
A Hundred Collars	Robert Frost	2018
The Broken Man’s Permission	Aaron Coleman	2018
Homecoming Cistern Alien Vessel	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2018
Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead	Dorothy Chan	2018
In the First Place of My Life	Ray Young Bear	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
The World's Wanderers	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
Another Night at Sea Level	Meg Day	2017
The Silver Thread	Afaa Michael Weaver	2017
Mount Shasta	John Rollin Ridge	2017

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