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
Gitanjali 27	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me]	William Shakespeare	1603
Summer Song	William Carlos Williams	1917
Gitanjali 95	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Harlem: The Black City	Fenton Johnson	1916
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	Edward Lear	1871
Song [When I am dead, my dearest]	Christina Rossetti	1862
See It Through	Edgar Guest	1917
Dust of Snow	Robert Frost	1920
The Present Crisis	James Russell Lowell	1845
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
The Song My Paddle Sings	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
Gitanjali 69	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
Up-Hill	Christina Rossetti	1818
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1798
My Dream	Han Yong-un	1926

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