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 the Beach at Night Alone	Walt Whitman	1891
Summer	Amy Lowell	1912
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	1623
In the Mountains on a Summer Day	Li Bai	1919
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652	John Milton	1667
Summer Images	John Clare	1835
Poems	Rabindranath Tagore	1912
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
‘The child is father to the man.’	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2011
Interlude	Edith Sitwell	1920
My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness	Thomas Wyatt	1557
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65)	William Shakespeare	1609
It was not Death, for I stood up (510)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Essay on Man, Epistle I [excerpt]	Alexander Pope	1734
The Glimpse	Thomas Hardy	1917
The Interloper	Thomas Hardy	1917
The Planting of the Apple-Tree	William Cullen Bryant	1864
Letter from Town: The Almond Tree	D. H. Lawrence	1920
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth	David Rosenthal	1920

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