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
From Let, Bloodlet	Crisosto Apache	2026
Re-Statement of Romance	Wallace Stevens	2016
The Author to Her Book	Anne Bradstreet	1678
The Falling of the Leaves	W. B. Yeats	2017
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer	John Keats	1816
The Garden Year	Sara Coleridge	1834
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister	Robert Browning	1842
Duplex	Jericho Brown	2019
In the City	Chen Chen	2017
To Think of Time	Walt Whitman	1855
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Following Dogs	Billy Collins	2025
Monologue for an Onion	Suji Kwock Kim	2003
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]	John Keats	1817
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]	William Shakespeare	1603
Tear It Down	Jack Gilbert	2001
Instructions for Having a Soul	Joseph Fasano
The Harp of Broken Strings	John Rollin Ridge	1850
The Colonel	Carolyn Forché	1981

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