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
To Night	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1821
The Cows at Night	Hayden Carruth	2006
A Shropshire Lad, XIII	A. E. Housman	1896
Adlestrop	Edward Thomas	1917
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
Couple Sharing a Peach	Molly Peacock	2002
Chansons Innocentes: I	E. E. Cummings	1976
A Tragedy	Arthur Conan Doyle	1922
Hibernal	Babette Deutsch	1925
Hope	Clara Ann Thompson	1908
On Moving	Jane Huffman	2023
Mexican Heaven	José Olivarez	2023
Rose Song	Anne Reeve Aldrich	1889
Conversation in Isolation	Harryette Mullen	2021
The Conqueror Worm	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”]	Layli Long Soldier	2017
Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries	Walt Whitman	2016
When the Year Grows Old	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2014
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur	2004

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