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
Eternity	William Blake	1880
Twenty-One Love Poems [Poem II]	Adrienne Rich	2016
Dog Around the Block	E. B. White	1930
The Fly	William Blake	1794
To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104)	William Shakespeare	2016
After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email	Emily Jungmin Yoon	2026
The Sun Rising	John Donne	1635
After the Movie	Marie Howe	2008
Loveliest of Trees	A. E. Housman	1896
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	1751
Who Has Seen the Wind?	Christina Rossetti	1893
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
In the Waiting Room	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
Chanson d’automne	Paul Verlaine	2019
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard]	William Shakespeare	1622
Spider	Andrea Gibson	2026
To My Dear and Loving Husband	Anne Bradstreet	1678
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps	Andrea Gibson	2021
Miracles	Walt Whitman	1881

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