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
When Malindy Sings	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1901
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1798
The World Is Too Much With Us	William Wordsworth	1807
God's Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724	Ovid	1683
The Divine Image	William Blake	1789
A Divine Image	William Blake	1794
Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	1724
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	William Wordsworth	1800
Pied Beauty	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion	William Cowper	1816
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)	John Donne	1633
Shadows in the Water	Thomas Traherne	1910
Now Winter Nights Enlarge	Thomas Campion	1617
My Picture Left in Scotland	Ben Jonson	1640
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)	William Shakespeare	1609
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
This Living Hand	John Keats	1818

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