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 Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d	Walt Whitman	1850
A Late Walk	Robert Frost	2018
Mother o’ Mine	Rudyard Kipling	1892
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
On Time	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank]	William Shakespeare	1603
Meeting at Night	Robert Browning	1845
My People	Langston Hughes	1922
A Prayer in Spring	Robert Frost	2018
A Tragic Story	William Makepeace Thackeray	2018
The Crescent Moon	Amy Lowell	2018
Summer Sun	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	Walt Whitman	1891
The Last Leaf	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1833
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	William Wordsworth	1800
Art,	Herman Melville	1891
My Loves	Langston Hughes	1922
Where Go the Boats?	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
An Hymn to the Evening	Phillis Wheatley	1909

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