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
In Tall Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
Song of Myself, 14	Walt Whitman	1891
The Trumpet	Edward Thomas	1922
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128)	William Shakespeare	1904
That you were once unkind befriends me now (Sonnet 120)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)	William Shakespeare	1904
If I Should Ever by Chance	Edward Thomas
A Shropshire Lad, VII	A. E. Housman	2018
XXVIII [“Truth,” said a traveller]	Stephen Crane	2017
Song of a Second April	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
On the Freedom of the Press	Benjamin Franklin	2017
I Am a Little World Made Cunningly (Holy Sonnet V)	John Donne	2015
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	T. S. Eliot	1920
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!]	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1808
Fog	Emma Lazarus	1889
Gitanjali 23	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Gitanjali 84	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Hearthside	Dorothy Parker	1926

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