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
Persimmons	Li-Young Lee	1986
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden	Sterling A. Brown	1927
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now	Matthew Olzmann	2017
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Human Seasons	John Keats	1819
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
Spring and Fall	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Keep My Poems	Yahya Ashour	2026
Under the Harvest Moon	Carl Sandburg	1916
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
Harlem: The Black City	Fenton Johnson	1916
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]	John Milton	1667
A Boy and His Dad	Edgar Guest	1921
How I Am	Jason Shinder	2005
You Begin	Margaret Atwood	1978
Gertrude Stein	Mina Loy	1924
I dwell in Possibility (30)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Requiescat	Oscar Wilde	2018

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