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
Bright Star	John Keats	1838
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	John Donne	1633
No!	Thomas Hood	1844
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
On Giving	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Sympathy	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Wait	Galway Kinnell	2016
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
From “Nox” [gentes]	Anne Carson	2010
I heard a Fly buzz (465)	Emily Dickinson	1998
To You	Walt Whitman	1891
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	1817
To a Skylark	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820
Sci-Fi	Tracy K. Smith	2011

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