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
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1798
Bone by Bone: A Hypochondriac Inventory	Kashiana Singh	2026
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love	Anne Carson	2020
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Fish	Marianne Moore	1921
We never know how high we are (1176)	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore	1813
We Wear the Mask	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1896
To ——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
Instead of Depression	Andrea Gibson	2021
Afternoon on a Hill	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
To the Sea	Anis Mojgani	2023
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	1751
The Red Poppy	Louise Glück	1992
The Watchers	John Greenleaf Whittier	2017
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
The Gift to Sing	James Weldon Johnson	2015
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952

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