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 Time	John Milton	1645
The Wind and the Moon	George Macdonald	1904
The Collar	George Herbert	1633
Return to Sea	Langston Hughes	1927
It Begins With the Trees	Ada Limón	2022
America, I Sing Back	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke	2016
What Came to Me	Jane Kenyon	2006
They Flee from Me	Thomas Wyatt	1557
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
Going for Water	Robert Frost	1915
All but Death can be (89)	Emily Dickinson	1929
The Black Heralds	César Vallejo	1918
To a Mouse,	Robert Burns	1786
The Return	Ezra Pound	1913
The Suicide	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956
An Acrostic	Edgar Allan Poe	1911
The Battle Hymn of the Republic	Julia Ward Howe	1862
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight	Jane Hirshfield	1997
Forever	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1901
She dwelt among the untrodden ways	William Wordsworth	1800

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