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 Lovers of the Poor	Gwendolyn Brooks	1999
9.	E. E. Cummings	2010
The Sleepers	Walt Whitman	1891
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Anne Sexton	1981
The Children’s Hour	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1860
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249)	Emily Dickinson	1861
Quilts	Nikki Giovanni	2004
To the Daisy	William Wordsworth	1807
Afternoon on a Hill	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1917
Never give all the heart	W. B. Yeats	1904
my father moved through dooms of love	E. E. Cummings	1991
The Author to Her Book	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Lot’s Wife	Anna Akhmatova	1973
Dusk After Your Passing	Ada Limón	2026
Like You	Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman	2018
Life	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015	Susan Briante	2010
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
There is no frigate like a book (1263)	Emily Dickinson	1890
[You love yourself only when in pain]	Dan Sociu	2026

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