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
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”]	Layli Long Soldier	2017
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
Whom You Love	Joseph O. Legaspi	2013
In drear nighted December	John Keats	1817
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day	John Dryden	1687
We’ll Go No More a-Roving	William Ernest Henley	1893
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art	Frank O’Hara	1957
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes]	William Shakespeare	1603
Starlight	William Meredith	1997
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	John Donne	1633
The Man with Night Sweats	Thom Gunn	1994
I am the People, the Mob	Carl Sandburg	1916
In View of the Fact	A. R. Ammons	2005
Coronach	Sir Walter Scott	1875
At the end of the world, you tell me about the bees	Muriel Leung	2026
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog	Kaveh Akbar	2025
Ghazal of Oranges	Jan-Henry Gray	2022
Keep A-Pluggin' Away	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Fantasy in Purple	Langston Hughes	1926
If You Knew	Ruth Muskrat Bronson	1923

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