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
Escape	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1925
The Courtship of Miles Standish	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.	Donika Kelly	2017
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing]	Virgil	1907
Cento Between the Ending and the End	Cameron Awkward-Rich	2018
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself	Wallace Stevens	1980
I Sing the Body Electric	Walt Whitman	1891
Yesterday	W. S. Merwin	1983
A Shropshire Lad, IX	A. E. Housman	2018
Let Evening Come	Jane Kenyon	1996
the sonnet-ballad	Gwendolyn Brooks	1949
A Late Walk	Robert Frost	2018
An Acrostic	Edgar Allan Poe	1911
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About	Judith Viorst	1981
Freeway 280	Lorna Dee Cervantes	1981
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
The Old Stoic	Emily Brontë	1846
A Christmas Carol	Christina Rossetti	2011
Parent's Pantoum	Carolyn Kizer	1996
A Woman Waits for Me	Walt Whitman	1891

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