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 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
Adam's Curse	W. B. Yeats	1903
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
The Debt	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Tender Buttons [Chicken]	Gertrude Stein	1914
To a Skylark	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820
Rose Aylmer	Walter Savage Landor	1806
Summer Night, Riverside	Sara Teasdale	1915
Warm Summer Sun	Mark Twain	1896
Idyll	Siegfried Sassoon	1920
Summer Song	William Carlos Williams	1917
For Once, Then, Something	Robert Frost	1920

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