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
Flores Woman	Tracy K. Smith	2017
A Winter’s Tale	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Captured Goddess	Amy Lowell	2016
The Inward Morning	Henry David Thoreau	2016
The Woodlice	Aracelis Girmay	2015
Untitled	Rachel McKibbens	2014
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2015
Suburban	Michael Blumenthal	1987
That This	Susan Howe	2011
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
Gunga Din	Rudyard Kipling	1892
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16	Homer	1975
The Heart is the capital (138)	Emily Dickinson	1929
I, Lover	Elsa Gidlow	1923
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127)	William Shakespeare	1904
On Laws	Kahlil Gibran	1923
To a Soldier in Hospital	Winifred M. Letts	2018
The Bronze Legacy	Effie Lee Newsome	1922

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