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
Small Craft Talk Warning	Dean Young	2019
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd	Walt Whitman	1891
Never give all the heart	W. B. Yeats	1904
OBIT [Memory]	Victoria Chang	2017
What Came to Me	Jane Kenyon	2006
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
The Black Heralds	César Vallejo	1918
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
There is no frigate like a book (1263)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Problem-Not-Solving	Anne Waldman	2014
Piano	D. H. Lawrence	1918
Ballad of the Goodly Fere	Ezra Pound	1956
An End	Chet’la Sebree	2025
Poem for July 4, 1994	Sonia Sanchez	2018
Don’t Go Into the Library	Alberto Ríos	2017
Song of the Open Road, 15	Walt Whitman	1891
Gerontion	T. S. Eliot	1920
Chicago	Carl Sandburg	1914
I Have a Rendezvous with Death	Alan Seeger	1917
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	2016

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