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
Since Nine O’Clock	C. P. Cavafy	2009
Sailing to Byzantium	W. B. Yeats	1928
The Human Seasons	John Keats	1819
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year	Maxine Kumin	2008
To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger	William Cartwright	1651
The Edges of Time (audio only)	Kay Ryan	2007
Forgetfulness	Billy Collins	1999
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
The Young Man's Song	W. B. Yeats	1916
My Lost Youth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1855
Poem at Thirty	Michael Ryan	2004
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter	Ezra Pound	1956
Two Horses and a Dog	James Galvin	1997
When You Are Old	W. B. Yeats	1919
Letters from a Father	Mona Van Duyn	1982
Age	Robert Creeley	1991
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos	Anthony Hecht	1990
"Now, I know you remember so and so"	Doris Davenport	2005
Age and Death	Emma Lazarus	1888
In View of the Fact	A. R. Ammons	2005

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