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
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1861
There Will Come Soft Rains	Sara Teasdale	2003
In Flanders Fields	John McCrae	1915
September 1, 1939	W. H. Auden	1940
Dulce et Decorum Est	Wilfred Owen	1920
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1847
The Shield of Achilles	W. H. Auden	1955
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1854
Death Fugue	Paul Celan	2020
The Odyssey, Book I, Lines 1–20	Homer	2000
The Soldier	Rupert Brooke	1914
Chanson d’automne	Paul Verlaine	2019
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–15	Homer	1997
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
Drummer Hodge	Thomas Hardy	2017
the sonnet-ballad	Gwendolyn Brooks	1949
In a Time of Peace	Ilya Kaminsky	2019
We Lived Happily During the War	Ilya Kaminsky	2019

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