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
On Pain	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Song of Myself, 51	Walt Whitman	1891
Love After Love	Derek Walcott	2014
Still I Rise	Maya Angelou	1978
My Heart Leaps Up	William Wordsworth	1807
maggie and milly and molly and may	E. E. Cummings	1956
Tincture	Andrea Gibson	2018
O Me! O Life!	Walt Whitman	1891
How to Continue Loving the World Despite Years of Impediment	Marcus Wicker	2026
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
Dream Variations	Langston Hughes	1994
Self-Pity	D. H. Lawrence	1929
I Am Not Yours	Sara Teasdale	1917
Gitanjali 1	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
As I Grew Older	Langston Hughes	1926
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	1915
Anthropocenic	Jake Skeets	2023
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love	Anne Carson	2020

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