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 Humble-Bee	Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Paumanok Starting I Fly Like a Bird	Walt Whitman
To A Brown Boy	Countee Cullen
Pilgrims	Henry David Thoreau
Songs (IV)	E. E. Cummings
At the Closed Gates of Justice	James D. Corrothers
“We As Women”	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard
Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles	Sally Wen Mao
Eighteen Sixty-One	Walt Whitman
Songs (VI)	E. E. Cummings
To Any Reader	Robert Louis Stevenson
Song: Sweetest love, I do not go	John Donne
For an Atheist	Countee Cullen
Invisible Woman, Dancing	Constance Merritt
Songs (IX)	E. E. Cummings
Canto V	Ezra Pound
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	Walt Whitman
To a Stray Fowl	Henry David Thoreau
from Clarel [The Recluse]	Herman Melville

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