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
The Courtship of Miles Standish	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
Fame is a fickle food (1659)	Emily Dickinson	1957
At Sunset	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]	John Keats	1817
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]	William Shakespeare	1603
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	2022
Song for the Turtles in the Gulf	Linda Hogan	2016
The Traveling Onion	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Maps	Yesenia Montilla	2017
the sonnet-ballad	Gwendolyn Brooks	1949
Gravity	Mark Turcotte	2002
A Woman Waits for Me	Walt Whitman	1891
America, I Sing Back	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke	2016
Putting in the Seed	Robert Frost	2016
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
Nesting Dolls	Danielle Hanson	2025
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43)	William Shakespeare	1904

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