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
Quashie to Buccra	Claude McKay	1912
Midwife Cat	Mark Van Doren	1924
In Envy of Cows	Joseph Auslander	1923
A Poem for Children with Thoughts on Death	Jupiter Hammon	1782
Insomnia Etiquette	Rita Dove	2012
On the Hills of Dawn	Alexander Posey	1910
A Shropshire Lad, XI	A. E. Housman	2018
How Like the Sea	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1902
Song of the Oktahutche	Alexander Posey	1900
Sonnet [This day when waking from pertubéd sleep]	Luis G. Dato	1926
A Corn-Song	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Travelling Storm	Mark Van Doren	1924
A Coney Island of the Mind, 19	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	1958
A Shropshire Lad, VII	A. E. Housman	2018
A Winter Twilight	Angelina Weld Grimké	1923
Songs (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1925
Field Manœuvres	Richard Aldington	2018
Reflections	Ameen Rihani	1921
Songs (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)	Charlotte Smith	1797

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