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
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You	Natalie Diaz	2019
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
The Fly	William Blake	1794
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
Two Loves	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
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
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Facing It	Yusef Komunyakaa	1988
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Song of the Open Road, 1	Walt Whitman	2016
Goblin Market	Christina Rossetti	1862
Anthem for Doomed Youth	Wilfred Owen	1920
Kingfisher	Hai-Dang Phan	2026
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
Epitaph on a Tyrant	W. H. Auden	1940
Throwing Children	Ross Gay	2023
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Afterwards	Thomas Hardy	1917

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