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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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A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
She dwelt among the untrodden ways William Wordsworth 1800
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me] William Shakespeare 1603
Water-Lily Abraham Cowley 1881
The Request Abraham Cowley 1656
The Heart Breaking Abraham Cowley 1656
Written in Juice of Lemon Abraham Cowley 1809
The Art of Poetry [excerpt] Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1674
Astraea Redux John Dryden 1660
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music John Dryden 1697
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Theodore and Honoria Giovanni Boccaccio 1700
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
We’ll Go No More a-Roving William Ernest Henley 1893
The Amaranth Vachel Lindsay 1914
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight Vachel Lindsay 1914
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916
Beyond the Years Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
How Much? Carl Sandburg 1922
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890

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