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
Where Go the Boats?	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
Spring is like a perhaps hand	E. E. Cummings	1923
A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball	Christopher Merrill	2001
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella	Ariana Brown	2022
Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour	Wallace Stevens	1954
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [There was a time]	Claudia Rankine	2004
Iris of Life	Zitkála-Šá	1898
The Return	Ezra Pound	1913
On Time	John Milton	1645
Love’s Secret	William Blake	1863
Peace Path	Heid E. Erdrich	2016
The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo	Edward Lear	1877
America, I Sing Back	Allison Adelle Hedge Coke	2016
The Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
The Collar	George Herbert	1633
The Courtship of Miles Standish	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
An Hymn to the Evening	Phillis Wheatley	1909
Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking	Walt Whitman	1891
Now	Robert Browning	2016

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