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
In Praise of Shame	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Hap	Thomas Hardy	1898
From the Long Sad Party	Mark Strand	1973
The Dumb Soldier	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Honey	Arielle Greenberg	2005
Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]	Kabir	2004
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
Short-Order Cook	Jim Daniels	1985
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55)	William Shakespeare	1609
prayer	nicole v basta	2022
Post Partum	Nikita Deshpande	2026
The City Lights	Lucy Larcom	1900
Gitanjali 93	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
A House in Taos	Langston Hughes	1927
Pebbles	Frank Dempster Sherman	1892
The Shadow on the Stone	Thomas Hardy	1917
The Art of Shooting in the Dark	Denice Frohman	2022
We Used Our Words We Used What Words We Had	Franny Choi	2022
The Sheaves	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1925
The Song of the Smoke	W. E. B. Du Bois	1914

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