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
Loam	Carl Sandburg	1918
Testament	Carl Sandburg	1918
Poems Done on a Late Night Car	Carl Sandburg	1916
Delicate Cluster	Walt Whitman	1891
Last Words to Miriam	D. H. Lawrence	1921
But Men Loved Darkness Rather Than Light	Richard Crashaw	1646
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
On Poet-Ape	Ben Jonson	1616
Signs of the Times	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1896
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day	Lydia Maria Child	1844
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Bible Defence of Slavery	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1851
Early Affection	George Moses Horton	1865
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Untitled [’Tis now since I sate down before]	Sir John Suckling	1848
Against Fruition	Sir John Suckling	1646
Loving and Beloved	Sir John Suckling	1646
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
Mr. Flood's Party	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1921
Ballad of a Wedding	Sir John Suckling	1646

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