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
I Have a Rendezvous With Life	Countee Cullen	1916
Spent	Mark Doty	2013
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794)	Emily Dickinson	1890
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt]	Stéphane Mallarmé	1994
The Pumpkin	John Greenleaf Whittier	1850
Gitanjali 4	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Ode to the Sun	Eloise Bibb Thompson	1900
Wind	Gwendolyn Bennett	1924
Songs (III)	E. E. Cummings	1925
The Peacemaker	Joyce Kilmer	2018
The Sky Over My Mother’s House	Jaime Manrique	2016
That Music Always Round Me	Walt Whitman	1891
With Music	Helen Hay Whitney	1905
In drear nighted December	John Keats	1817
Beyond the Years	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
The Vampyre	John Stagg	1810
Helen	H.D.	1982
Flying	Sarah Arvio	2002
Wait Until It Grows Roots	Tarfia Faizullah	2025
The Changeling	Charlotte Mew	1921