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
The Giaour [Unquenched, unquenchable]	George Gordon Byron	1813
Christabel [excerpt]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1816
The Lady That Loved a Swine	Anonymous	1900
To Fanny	John Keats	1848
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone	John Keats	1819
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in]	John Keats	1820
The Snail	William Cowper	1731
Epitaph on a Hare	William Cowper	1783
Ah! Sunflower	William Blake	1794
The Cruel Mother	Anonymous	1690
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Olney Hymns, XLVIII [Joy and Peace in Believing]	William Cowper	1779
Olney Hymns, XXXII [The Shining Light]	William Cowper	1779
Olney Hymns, IX [The Contrite Heart]	William Cowper	1779
The Task, Book I, The Sofa [excerpt]	William Cowper	1785
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866	John Milton	1667
The Face of All the World (Sonnet 7)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
A Bird came down the Walk (328)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
The Debt	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913

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