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 His Deceased Wife	John Milton	1658
On Time	John Milton	1645
Peace	Henry Vaughan	1650
The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Song on May Morning	John Milton	1645
Break, Break, Break	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
Lycidas	John Milton	1638
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Mr. Flood's Party	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1921
Encouragements to a Lover	Sir John Suckling	1637
Ballad of a Wedding	Sir John Suckling	1646
Untitled [Tis now since I sate down before]	Sir John Suckling	1848
Against Fruition	Sir John Suckling	1646
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646
Quindecagon (audio only)	Ron Silliman	2008
What [Friends ask us why] (audio only)	Ron Silliman	2008
Going Down Hill on a Bicycle	Henry Charles Beeching	1895
Playgrounds	Laurence Alma-Tadema	1903
The Wind and the Moon	George Macdonald	1904
The Gladness of Nature	William Cullen Bryant	1832

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