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
Clouds	Anonymous
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
To You	Walt Whitman	1891
Chicago	Carl Sandburg	1914
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	2016
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	1751
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian	Ross Gay	2016
A Psalm of Life	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	1817
The Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore	1813
The Harlem Dancer	Claude McKay	1922
Variation on the Word Sleep	Margaret Atwood	1987
the mother	Gwendolyn Brooks	1945
After Words	Kelly Beard	2026
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
Sympathy	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899

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