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
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
The Garden	Andrew Marvell	1681
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
The Solitary Reaper	William Wordsworth	1807
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
Song on May Morning	John Milton	1645
Upon Julia's Clothes	Robert Herrick	1670
Lycidas	John Milton	1638

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