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
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	W. B. Yeats	1889
Little Orphant Annie	James Whitcomb Riley	1885
Ozymandias	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1818
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage]	William Shakespeare	1623
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)	William Shakespeare	1609
To My Dear and Loving Husband	Anne Bradstreet	1678
A Dream Within a Dream	Edgar Allan Poe	1820
Ulysses	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1842
On Self-Knowledge	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Jabberwocky	Lewis Carroll	1871
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
Mother to Son	Langston Hughes	1922
The Power of the Dog	Rudyard Kipling	1922
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be]	William Shakespeare	1603
I Hear an Army	James Joyce	1914
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod	Eugene Field	1889
The New Colossus	Emma Lazarus	2018
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
[since feeling is first]	E. E. Cummings	1926
Poem	Langston Hughes	1926

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