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
What the Thrush Said	John Keats	2015
So Long!	Walt Whitman	1891
Mont Blanc	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1816
The Weighing	Jane Hirshfield	1994
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt]	Aimé Césaire	2001
Song of Myself, 31	Walt Whitman	1891
Dear March—Come in—(1320)	Emily Dickinson	1890
The Host of the Air	W. B. Yeats	1893
If They Come For Us	Fatimah Asghar	2017
Frederick Douglass	Robert Hayden	2017
The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon	Kimiko Hahn	2016
A Drinking Song	W. B. Yeats	1916
The Vampyre	John Stagg	1810
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
For a Daughter Who Leaves	Janice Mirikitani	2002
Put Out My Eyes	Rainer Maria Rilke	1905
The Labyrinth	Jorge Luis Borges	1999
The Sentry	Wilfred Owen	2018
The Unquiet Grave	Anonymous	1400

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