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
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
Solstice	Ellen Dudley	2007
The Marshes of Glynn	Sidney Lanier	1878
The Testing-Tree	Stanley Kunitz	1971
To the Daisy	William Wordsworth	1807
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky	Lewis Carroll	1882
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
My People	Langston Hughes	1922
Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
Tell Me a Story	Robert Penn Warren	1985
To All My Friends	May Yang	2017
Love’s Secret	William Blake	1863
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing	Margaret Atwood	1995
A Decade	Amy Lowell	1921
We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born	Oscar Gonzales	2016
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	W. B. Yeats	1919
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
There is no frigate like a book (1263)	Emily Dickinson	1890

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