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
The Sleepers	Walt Whitman	1891
the mother	Gwendolyn Brooks	1945
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)]	Adrienne Rich	2016
Tender Buttons [Objects]	Gertrude Stein	1914
The Good-Morrow	John Donne	1633
The Coming of Light	Mark Strand	2002
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
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be	John Keats	1848
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning	John Donne	1633
Bright Star	John Keats	1838
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps	Andrea Gibson	2021
A Red, Red Rose	Robert Burns	1794
Life	Charlotte Brontë	2016
That’s the Job	Edward Hirsch	2018
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth	Fatimah Asghar	2019
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies	Joy Harjo	2016

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