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
A Dream Within a Dream	Edgar Allan Poe	1820
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard]	William Shakespeare	1622
Heart to Heart	Rita Dove	2017
The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams	1962
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
I measure every Grief I meet (561)	Emily Dickinson	1951
The Purple Cow	Gelett Burgess	1895
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	1914
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
Christmas Bells	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1865
The Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore	1813
Summer Song	William Carlos Williams	1917
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps	Andrea Gibson	2021
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Borges and I	Jorge Luis Borges	1999
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
The Patience of Ordinary Things	Pat Schneider	2019
Famous	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994

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