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
Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion	William Cowper	1816
Song of Myself, 1 [I Celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)	John Donne	1633
I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
A Grave	Marianne Moore	1981
The Good Gray Wolf	Martha Collins	1999
Syringa	John Ashbery	1975
Medusa	Patricia Smith	1992
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood'	Agha Shahid Ali	1987
Now Winter Nights Enlarge	Thomas Campion	1617
My Picture Left in Scotland	Ben Jonson	1640
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30)	William Shakespeare	1609
Sometimes with One I Love	Walt Whitman	2013
To a Poor Old Woman	William Carlos Williams	1962
To Earthward	Robert Frost	1916
Little Lion Face	May Swenson	1987
On the Skeleton of a Hound	James Wright	1992
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Moose	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
Gacela of the Dark Death	Federico García Lorca	1973

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