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
Banking Coal	Jean Toomer	1922
Park Going to Sleep	Helen Hoyt	2016
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard]	William Shakespeare	1622
Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene II [Good fellows all]	William Shakespeare	2016
Troilus and Cressida, Act III, Scene III [Time hath, my lord]	William Shakespeare	2016
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene I [Wherefore rejoice?]	William Shakespeare	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter]	William Shakespeare	2016
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]	William Shakespeare	2016
Henry VIII, Prologue [I come no more to make you laugh]	William Shakespeare	2016
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]	William Shakespeare	2016
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power (Sonnet 126)	William Shakespeare	2016
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth (Sonnet 146)	William Shakespeare	2016
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60)	William Shakespeare	2016
A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted (Sonnet 20)	William Shakespeare	2016
Like as, to make our appetite more keen (Sonnet 118)	William Shakespeare	2016
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138)	William Shakespeare	2016

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