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
The Summer Day	Mary Oliver	1990
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond	E. E. Cummings	1923
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)	William Shakespeare	1609
A Prayer for my Daughter	W. B. Yeats	1921
Ode to Fat	Ellen Bass	2020
Small Kindnesses	Danusha Laméris	2020
In a Station of the Metro	Ezra Pound	1926
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]	William Wordsworth	1807
Ode to My Socks	Pablo Neruda	2016
Lullaby	W. H. Auden	1940
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
Good Bones	Maggie Smith	2016
She Walks in Beauty	Lord George Gordon Byron	1815
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)	Nikki Giovanni	2017
To His Coy Mistress	Andrew Marvell	1681
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard]	William Shakespeare	1622
Moonlight on Manila Bay	Fernando M. Maramág	1912
“The world is a beautiful place”	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	2017
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)	William Shakespeare	1609
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian	Ross Gay	2016

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