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 Idea of Ancestry	Etheridge Knight	1986
The Shapes of Leaves	Arthur Sze	1998
The South	Langston Hughes	1926
To Dorothy	Marvin Bell	2000
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
July prayer to survive the summer	Robin Walter	2024
Defeat	Kahlil Gibran	1918
On Freedom	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home	Meg Day	2017
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1832
Easter, 1916	W. B. Yeats	1921
The Falling of the Leaves	W. B. Yeats	2017
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	William Wordsworth	1800
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Armadillo	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
For every bird a nest (79)	Emily Dickinson	1929
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella	Ariana Brown	2022
To a Dead Friend	Langston Hughes	1922
Piano	D. H. Lawrence	1918
Revery	Fenton Johnson	1915

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