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
Shoulders	Naomi Shihab Nye	1994
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
Two Loves	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
The Marshes of Glynn	Sidney Lanier	1878
Love’s Philosophy	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)	William Shakespeare	1609
If We Must Die	Claude McKay	1919
The Conditional	Ada Limón	2013
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing	Margaret Atwood	1995
Your Catfish Friend	Richard Brautigan	1989
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]	Frank O’Hara	1964
Garden Abstract	Hart Crane	2016
Honestly,	John Ashbery	2015
A Blessing for Wedding	Jane Hirshfield	2011
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
Whales Weep Not!	D. H. Lawrence	1964
The Walrus and the Carpenter	Lewis Carroll	1872
In the Company of Women	January Gill O’Neil	2014
my father moved through dooms of love	E. E. Cummings	1991
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623

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