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
On Pleasure	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Ode to Psyche	John Keats	2016
The Inward Morning	Henry David Thoreau	2016
A Man Said to the Universe	Stephen Crane	2016
Holidays	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2015
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1818
To the Film Industry in Crisis	Frank O’Hara	1957
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]	William Shakespeare	1623
miss rosie	Lucille Clifton	1987
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind	Thomas Wyatt	1550
October Evening	Robinson Jeffers	1935
On the Grasshopper and Cricket	John Keats	2015
The City Limits	A. R. Ammons	1986
[It was summer when I found you]	Sappho	1907
Prayer	Galway Kinnell	2018
The House on the Hill	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes	Rasha Abdulhadi	2021
Holding the Light	Stuart Kestenbaum	2013
Song of Myself, 31	Walt Whitman	1891
On Marriage	Marilyn Hacker	2016

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