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
We Always Have Been	Kim Shuck	2019
Boston Hymn	Ralph Waldo Emerson
When Bad Things Happen to Good People	Lynn Melnick	2019
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (Sonnet 46)	William Shakespeare	1904
That thou hast her, it is not all my grief (Sonnet 42)	William Shakespeare	1904
Spring in War-Time	Sara Teasdale	2018
The Past Is the Present	Marianne Moore	1917
An Encounter	Robert Frost	2018
The Best Way I Can Describe It	Dean Young	2018
Praisesong	Sarah Browning	2017
Sorrow	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging	Carl Adamshick	2014
The Banjo Player	Fenton Johnson	1922
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America	Ada Limón	2012
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love	John Keats	1819
The Question Answered	William Blake	1905
Playgrounds	Laurence Alma-Tadema	1903
Wedding Dress	Michael Waters	2006

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