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
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Chicago	Carl Sandburg	1914
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Song of the Open Road, 1	Walt Whitman	2016
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Love Comes Quietly	Robert Creeley	2016
Horse	Katie Chaple	2026
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	Wilfred Owen	2018
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Fly	William Blake	1794
Fall	Edward Hirsch	1986
An American Sunrise	Joy Harjo	2019
Epitaph on a Tyrant	W. H. Auden	1940
Thanksgiving	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	2017
Nonsense Alphabet	Edward Lear	1846
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth	Fatimah Asghar	2019

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