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
Requiescat	Matthew Arnold	1853
The Harvest Moon	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1878
Signs of the Times	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1896
Eternity	William Blake	1880
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
The Triumph of Time	Algernon Charles Swinburne	1866
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
The Question Answered	William Blake	1905
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)	William Shakespeare	1609
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Early Affection	George Moses Horton	1865
George Moses Horton, Myself	George Moses Horton	1865
America	James Monroe Whitfield	1853
Bible Defence of Slavery	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1851
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630
To the Same	John Milton	1694

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