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 Glory of the Day Was in Her Face	James Weldon Johnson	2017
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6)	William Shakespeare	2016
Recollections of My Christmas Tree	Mary Ruefle	2016
Utopian	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
Mist	Henry David Thoreau	2015
The Children	TJ Jarrett	2015
On Virtue	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Because it looked hotter that way	Camille T. Dungy	2014
Montparnasse	Ernest Hemingway	1920
The Figure	Joseph Fasano	2013
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Two Sewing	Hazel Hall	1921
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Magi	W. B. Yeats	1914
On Summer	George Moses Horton	1837
A Meadow	Lucie Brock-Broido	2011
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart	Deborah Digges	2010
The Passionate Freudian to His Love	Dorothy Parker	1996
Ships That Pass in the Night	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1899

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