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 Shark	William Henry Venable	1909
In a Breath	Carl Sandburg	1916
World Below the Brine	Walt Whitman	1891
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned?	Robert Graves	1918
The Maldive Shark	Herman Melville	1888
To Her Father with Some Verses	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Father	Edgar Guest	1919
A Toast to the Men	Edgar Guest	1909
On Quitting	Edgar Guest	1912
Thanksgiving	Edgar Guest	1917
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
A Boy and His Dad	Edgar Guest	1921
Bulb Planting Time	Edgar Guest	1922
Tender Buttons [Apple]	Gertrude Stein	1914
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1880
The Soul’s Expression	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1844
Travel	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
What Do I Care	Sara Teasdale	1920
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind	Carl Sandburg	1922
Caboose Thoughts	Carl Sandburg	1918

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