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 Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
The Witch	Mary Elizabeth Coleridge	1893
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
To You	Walt Whitman	1891
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian	Ross Gay	2016
Chicago	Carl Sandburg	1914
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	1751
A Psalm of Life	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1839
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer	Walt Whitman	1900
Walking Around	Pablo Neruda	2016
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
The Lady of Shalott	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
The Last Rose of Summer	Thomas Moore	1813
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Variation on the Word Sleep	Margaret Atwood	1987
After Words	Kelly Beard	2026
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies	June Jordan	2017
Thanatopsis	William Cullen Bryant	1817

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