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
If—	Rudyard Kipling	1910
The Hollow Men	T. S. Eliot	1925
How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]	William Shakespeare	1603
Casey at the Bat	Ernest Lawrence Thayer	1883
Ozymandias	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1818
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	W. B. Yeats	1889
Paul Revere’s Ride	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1861
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod	Eugene Field	1889
The Tyger	William Blake	1794
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]	William Shakespeare	1600
On Joy and Sorrow	Kahlil Gibran	1923
On Pain	Kahlil Gibran	1923
The Bells	Edgar Allan Poe	1850
On Death	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Haunted Houses	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
O Captain! My Captain!	Walt Whitman	1891
Inferno, Canto I	Dante Alighieri	1877
The Stolen Child	W. B. Yeats	1889

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