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 Seven Prisms of My Blood	Khaty Xiong	2020
Crossing	Jericho Brown	2019
The Iraqi Nights	Dunya Mikhail	2016
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66)	William Shakespeare	1609
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	T. S. Eliot	1920
Sunday Morning	Wallace Stevens	1923
Lycidas	John Milton	1638
Happiness	Jane Kenyon	2001
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden]	Walt Whitman	1891
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion]	Petrarch	2004
Dawn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Rock Me to Sleep	Elizabeth Akers Allen	1859
No!	Thomas Hood	1844
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt]	Aimé Césaire	2001
Six Months After Contemplating Suicide	Erika L. Sánchez	2016
My Grandmother's White Cat	Maurice Kilwein Guevara	2001
Words Whispered to a Child Under Siege	Joseph Fasano	2024
Silence	Edgar Allan Poe	1840
Of Many Worlds in this World	Margaret Cavendish	1653

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