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
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell	John Dryden	1658
The Witch-Bride	William Allingham	1850
The Slave Mother	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
His Excuse for Loving	Ben Jonson	1640
Now Winter Nights Enlarge	Thomas Campion	1617
Freedom and Truth	Margaret Fuller	1859
The Giant Cactus of Arizona	Harriet Monroe	1914
To a Snowflake	Francis Thompson	1897
A Vision of the End	Too-qua-stee	1899
[the fourth of July – is Surely come]	David Drake	1859
Gitanjali 38	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
The Locust	Leonora Speyer	1920
Odyssey of Big Boy	Sterling A. Brown	1922
“I Shall Come Back”	Dorothy Parker	1926
The Blue-Green Stream	Wang Wei	1921
To Sir Toby	Philip Freneau	1795
Monotone	Carl Sandburg	1916
Free Labor	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
Song of Myself, 27	Walt Whitman	1891
O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends (Sonnet 101)	William Shakespeare	1904

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