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
First Fig	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1920
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–15	Homer	1997
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
If We Must Die	Claude McKay	1919
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	1914
Porphyria’s Lover	Robert Browning	1868
Auld Lang Syne	Robert Burns	1788
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
Chanson d’automne	Paul Verlaine	2019
Famous	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
An American Sunrise	Joy Harjo	2019
Loveliest of Trees	A. E. Housman	1896
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
The Sun Rising	John Donne	1635
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower	Dylan Thomas	1937
Nothing Twice	Wisława Szymborska	1998
My Papa’s Waltz	Theodore Roethke	1942
The Listeners	Walter de la Mare	1912
On Work	Kahlil Gibran	1923
The Highwayman	Alfred Noyes	1906

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