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
[ t h e ] n o r t h [ e r n ] [ o f ] i r e l a n d	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Song of Myself, 30	Walt Whitman	1891
Amores (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
But wherefore do not you a mightier way (Sonnet 16)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are (Sonnet 13)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Things That Count	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1919
I Wouldn’t Even Know What to Do with a Third Chance	Kaveh Akbar	2018
And Now Upon My Head the Crown	Phillip B. Williams	2018
A Summer Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
Poem about My Rights	June Jordan	2017
Sorrow	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Post-Factual Love Poem	Paul Guest	2017
His Speed and Strength	Alicia Ostriker	2016
Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath	Natasha Trethewey	2016
gathering words	María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado	2016
Native Memory	Ansel Elkins	2016
The Vantage Point	Robert Frost	2015
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood	William Cullen Bryant	2014
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
Lines to a Nasturtium	Anne Spencer	1926

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