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
Song of the Open Road, 3	Walt Whitman	1891
Georgia Dusk	Jean Toomer	1923
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63)	William Shakespeare	1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Shropshire Lad, XII	A. E. Housman	1922
In the Gold Room	Oscar Wilde	2018
in • cho • ate	A. Van Jordan	2018
The Self-Seeker	Robert Frost	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
Fairy-Land	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Enlightenment	Vijay Seshadri	2018
A Thank-Offering	Ella Higginson	2017
Spring	Eliza Cook	2017
The Silver Thread	Afaa Michael Weaver	2017
Roman Poem Number Thirteen	June Jordan	2017
Things We Didn’t Talk About	Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz	2017
Of the Irresolubleness of Diamonds	Monica Ferrell	2017

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