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 Vanity of Human Wishes	Samuel Johnson	2018
To His Mistress Going to Bed	John Donne	1654
Tear It Down	Jack Gilbert	2001
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]	Christopher Smart	1939
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
When I Rise Up	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1922
The Choir Invisible	George Eliot	1884
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
The Idea of Ancestry	Etheridge Knight	1986
“We As Women”	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Her Lips Are Copper Wire	Jean Toomer	1923
These Hands, If Not Gods	Natalie Diaz	2013
My Brother At 3 AM	Natalie Diaz	2012
The Haunted Palace	Edgar Allan Poe	1839
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	John Milton	1645
The Sleeper	Edgar Allan Poe	1846
Her Voice	Oscar Wilde	2018
Gerontion	T. S. Eliot	1920
Tell Me a Story	Robert Penn Warren	1985
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This	Hanif Abdurraqib	2018

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