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
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	1751
Sympathy	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899
Spring and Fall	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”	Edward Fitzgerald	1859
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)	William Shakespeare	1904
Summer Night, Riverside	Sara Teasdale	1915
Warm Summer Sun	Mark Twain	1896
Fog	Carl Sandburg	1919
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
Moonlight on Manila Bay	Fernando M. Maramág	1912
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	1915
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
A Nation's Strength	William Ralph Emerson	1847
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
To Roosevelt	Rubén Darío	1903
Verses upon the Burning of our House	Anne Bradstreet	1666
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
On Teaching	Kahlil Gibran	1923

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