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
Suicide’s Note	Langston Hughes	1926
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54)	William Shakespeare	1904
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Way of Seeing	Kwame Dawes	2017
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At	José Olivarez	2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born	Nicole Sealey	2017
A Brief History of Hostility	Jamaal May	2017
Endymion	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2016
Grief	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	2016
Mid-Day	H.D.	2016
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60)	William Shakespeare	2016
The Sea of Glass	Ezra Pound	1917
Water	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1867
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Widow's Lament in Springtime	William Carlos Williams	1922
Nothing in That Drawer	Ron Padgett	1990
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Of Many Worlds in this World	Margaret Cavendish	1653
Voyages II	Hart Crane	1933
Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?	Langston Hughes	1994

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