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 Noble Nature	Ben Jonson	1640
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
How I Became a Madman (Prologue)	Kahlil Gibran	1918
The Sleeping Husband	Monica Ferrell	2018
We Two, How Long We Were Fool’d	Walt Whitman	1981
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
Heat	H.D.	1982
Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	2022
if found, then measured	Marcelo Hernandez Castillo	2019
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.	Donika Kelly	2017
The Lovers of the Poor	Gwendolyn Brooks	1999
Atlantis	Hart Crane	1930
The Garden Year	Sara Coleridge	1834
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
Spleen	Charles Baudelaire	1982
This Living Hand	John Keats	1818
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Awakening	James Weldon Johnson	2016
My Heart	Kim Addonizio	2010
Eloisa to Abelard	Alexander Pope	1717

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