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
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now	Matthew Olzmann	2017
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]	John Milton	1667
Persimmons	Li-Young Lee	1986
The Gift of India	Sarojini Naidu	1917
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds	Ocean Vuong	2017
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
Lube, Ars Poetica	Lan Lesmeister	2026
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
The Song My Paddle Sings	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
Under the Harvest Moon	Carl Sandburg	1916
Harlem: The Black City	Fenton Johnson	1916
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
How I Am	Jason Shinder	2005
You Can’t Have It All	Barbara Ras	1997
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
To a Certain Lady, in Her Garden	Sterling A. Brown	1927
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773

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