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
On Hearing of the Intention of a Gentleman to Purchase the Poet's Freedom	George Moses Horton	1828
The Slave’s Complaint	George Moses Horton	1829
On Liberty and Slavery	George Moses Horton	1829
The First Snowfall	James Russell Lowell	1847
Alone	Edgar Allan Poe	1875
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
Remember	Christina Rossetti	1862
A Psalm of Life	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
Hymn to the Night	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
On the Mississippi	Hamlin Garland	1893
Long Island Sound	Emma Lazarus	1888
In Louisiana	Albert Bigelow Paine	1900
The Highwayman	Alfred Noyes	1906
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd	Sir Walter Raleigh	1600
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	Christopher Marlowe	1599
Come Up From the Fields Father	Walt Whitman	1891
The Man He Killed	Thomas Hardy	1902
Song of Myself, 10	Walt Whitman	1891
A Farewell to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
On My First Son	Ben Jonson	1603

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