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
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be	John Keats	1848
Song of the Shirt	Thomas Hood	1843
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
Wild Grapes	Robert Frost	1924
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
To Roosevelt	Rubén Darío	1903
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes	1994
Autumn	Rainer Maria Rilke	1918
Fog	Carl Sandburg	1919
Outcast	Claude McKay	1922
Give Me Your Hand	Gabriela Mistral	2003
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth	Fatimah Asghar	2019
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs]	Pablo Neruda	2016
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
Her Kind	Anne Sexton	1981
[The rage that shatters a man into children,]	César Vallejo	2026
Perhaps the World Ends Here	Joy Harjo	2015
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017

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