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
Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done	Victoria Chang	2017
The Vampire	Rudyard Kipling	1897
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles]	Homer	1715
Buffalo Bill ’s	E. E. Cummings	1976
Parent's Pantoum	Carolyn Kizer	1996
Exposure	Wilfred Owen	2016
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	W. B. Yeats	1919
The Goops	Gelett Burgess	1903
The Coming of the Ship	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
Daughter	Gabrielle Bates	2026
To a Young Poet	Zaina Alsous	2025
Travelling	William Wordsworth	1802
These Poems	June Jordan	1977
An Old Man’s Winter Night	Robert Frost	1916
There is no frigate like a book (1263)	Emily Dickinson	1890
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	2016

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