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
On Talking	Kahlil Gibran	1923
My Butterfly	Robert Frost	2017
The List of Famous Hats	James Tate	1986
From “Elegy in Joy”	Muriel Rukeyser	2011
The Choir Invisible	George Eliot	1884
The Host of the Air	W. B. Yeats	1893
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles	Francisco X. Alarcón	2017
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky	Lewis Carroll	1882
Maps	Yesenia Montilla	2017
R.I.P., My Love	Tory Dent	1999
The War Works Hard	Dunya Mikhail	2005
This Living Hand	John Keats	1818
Gitanjali 35	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
A Boy and His Dad	Edgar Guest	1921
August	Helen Hunt Jackson	2017
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Jumblies	Edward Lear	1871
Notes on Sentence Crossing	Wendy Xu	2023
In my craft or sullen art	Dylan Thomas
Ode to Solitude	Alexander Pope	1735

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