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
From “The Dead”	James Joyce	1914
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)	Geoffrey Chaucer	1602
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
To Rosemounde	Geoffrey Chaucer	1400
Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings]	Henry Howard	1374
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace]	Henry Howard
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green]	Henry Howard
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find]	Petrarch	1374
When I Heard at the Close of Day	Walt Whitman	1891
Harlem Shadows	Claude McKay	1921
Phyllis	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Oread	H.D.	1915
The Return	Ezra Pound	1913
How to Get Riches	Benjamin Franklin	1740
Haymaking	John Clare	1835
Occasioned by General Washington's Arrival in Philadelphia, On His Way to His Residence in Virginia	Philip Freneau	1783
Washington’s Monument, February, 1885	Walt Whitman	1891
To Roosevelt	Rubén Darío	1903

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