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
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Singularity	Marie Howe	2019
Theme for English B	Langston Hughes	1994
One Need Not be a Chamber — to be Haunted	Emily Dickinson	1900
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	1814
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Window	Spencer Reece	2026
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now	Matthew Olzmann	2017
The Snow Man	Wallace Stevens	1954
The New Love	Dorothy Parker	1926
Moonlight on Manila Bay	Fernando M. Maramág	1912
Morning Song	Sylvia Plath	1966
An Evening Discussion	Chen Chen	2026
The Human Seasons	John Keats	1819
To make a prairie (1755)	Emily Dickinson	1951
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
[O were my love yon Lilac fair]	Robert Burns	1793
Warm Summer Sun	Mark Twain	1896
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023

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