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
O, lest the world should task you to recite (Sonnet 72)	William Shakespeare	1904
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2)	William Shakespeare	1904
My Son Asks for the Story About When We Were Birds	Joe Wilkins	2018
13 Questions for the Next Economy	Susan Briante	2018
Rhapsody	Aditi Machado	2018
The Task	Edward Hirsch	2018
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
Then and Now	Thomas Hardy	2018
The Red Flower	Henry van Dyke	2018
The White Ships and the Red	Joyce Kilmer	2018
Unsolved	John McCrae	2018
A Shropshire Lad, VI	A. E. Housman	2018
Simon the Good	Joyelle McSweeney	2018
A Shropshire Lad, I	A. E. Housman	2018
S. I. W.	Wilfred Owen	1921
Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)	Charlotte Smith	1797
Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1848
Owed to the Durag	Joshua Bennett	2018
This Morning, this First Poem	Afaa Michael Weaver	2018
Her Initials	Thomas Hardy	2018

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