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.

Occasions

Themes

Forms

Search title or text

Title	Author	Year
The March into Virginia	Herman Melville	1866
Apathy and Enthusiasm	Herman Melville	1960
The Wreck of the Hesperus	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1842
In Tall Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
The Conflict of Convictions	Herman Melville	1860
At a Lunar Eclipse	Thomas Hardy	1919
From “Diverse Worlds, Time and Eternity”	Christina Rossetti	1893
From “Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book”	Christina Rossetti	1915
From “Stray Birds” [233—237]	Rabindranath Tagore	1921
Sonnet to Liberty	Oscar Wilde	1881
Sic Vita	Henry David Thoreau	2019
Nature	Henry David Thoreau	2019
The Moon	Robert Louis Stevenson	2019
The Centenarian’s Story	Walt Whitman
Rise O Days from Your Fathomless Deeps	Walt Whitman
Song of the Banner at Daybreak	Walt Whitman
A Red Man’s Thoughts	Tso-le-oh-woh
Aspiration	Adah Isaacs Menken	1868
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet	Tso-le-oh-woh	1853
The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1863

Page submenu block