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
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)	William Shakespeare	2016
The Thaw	Henry David Thoreau	1895
An Autumn Reverie	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1873
To an Unknown Poet	Yone Noguchi	1897
From a Bridge Car	Elias Lieberman	1917
The Clouded Morning	Jones Very	1839
Teach me I am forgotten by the dead	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1831
Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	Marianne Moore	1915
It Is a Small Plant	William Carlos Williams	1920
Under the Willows [May is a pious fraud of the almanac]	James Russell Lowell	1890
Epigram on Rough Roads	Robert Burns	1786
Song of the Owl	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1856
The Black Virginity	Mina Loy	1915
The Shark	Isaac McLellan	1891
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
A Toast to the Men	Edgar Guest	1909
Bulb Planting Time	Edgar Guest	1922
Caboose Thoughts	Carl Sandburg	1918
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Requiescat	Matthew Arnold	1853

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