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 Song of Despair	Pablo Neruda	1969
Be Less Poetic	Tariq Al-Arabi	2026
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	Edward Lear	1871
London	William Blake	1794
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Tender Buttons [Objects]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	1920
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Pomegranate	Eavan Boland	1994
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)	Emily Dickinson	1951
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Relax	Ellen Bass	2014
It Is a Small Plant	William Carlos Williams	1920
Ulysses [excerpt]	James Joyce	1922
Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	2016
How to Continue Loving the World Despite Years of Impediment	Marcus Wicker	2026
Morning Song	Sylvia Plath	1966
Kissing in Vietnamese	Ocean Vuong	2016
There was a child went forth every day	Walt Whitman	1900
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923

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