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 Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens)	Craig Santos Perez	2017
Kissing in Vietnamese	Ocean Vuong	2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
[the river]	Marwa Helal	2026
A Shropshire Lad, IX	A. E. Housman	2018
Crepuscule	E. E. Cummings	1917
Re-Statement of Romance	Wallace Stevens	2016
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!]	William Shakespeare	1608
After Apple-Picking	Robert Frost	1914
Love Opened a Mortal Wound	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	1997
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
the earth is a living thing	Lucille Clifton	1991
Long Distance II	Tony Harrison	1984
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]	William Shakespeare	2016
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	T. S. Eliot	1920
For Once, Then, Something	Robert Frost	1920
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]	William Shakespeare	1603
The Vampire	Rudyard Kipling	1897
Putting in the Seed	Robert Frost	2016

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