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
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last]	William Shakespeare	2017
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Waking	Theodore Roethke	2017
Stardate 8809.22	Adrian Matejka	2017
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities	Chen Chen	2017
To a Magazine	Mary Ruefle	2016
When I Read the Book	Walt Whitman	1891
Losing the 440-Yard Dash	Afaa Michael Weaver	2016
It Couldn't Be Done	Edgar Guest	1919
from Morituri Salutamus	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1900
Collectors	Marion Strobel	2016
Private Equity	Sophie Cabot Black	2016
No Hands	Carol Muske-Dukes	2016
Muse Not Muse	Rosanna Warren	2016
Timon of Athens, Act IV, Scene II [Good fellows all]	William Shakespeare	2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter]	William Shakespeare	2016
Cream City/Doodooshabo’enaande Oodena	Margaret Noodin	2015
Aztec Mask	Carl Sandburg	1913

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