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
Falsehood	William Cartwright	1651
No Platonic Love	William Cartwright	1651
Yourself the Sun	Arthur Gorges	1625
The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers	Andrew Marvell	1681
To Haydon with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles	John Keats	1817
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
Return	John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	1714
The Undying One, Canto I	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	1830
The Iliad, Book XVIII, [The Shield of Achilles]	Homer	1715
Purgatorio, Canto X	Dante Alighieri	1867
Lovers' Infiniteness	John Donne	1633
The Uses of Poetry	William Carlos Williams	1909
Peace on Earth	William Carlos Williams	1917
Love	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1826
I Do Not Love Thee	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	1829
Perfect Woman	William Wordsworth	1807
The Kiss	Sara Teasdale	1917
Anna, Thy Charms	Robert Burns	1788
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers]	Alexander Pope	1711

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