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
An Ante-Bellum Sermon	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43)	William Shakespeare	1904
On Religion	Kahlil Gibran	1923
America	Claude McKay	1921
We Have Been Friends Together	Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	1840
Infant Joy	William Blake	1789
The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1863
The Sparrow	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
On Good and Evil	Kahlil Gibran	1923
I Have this Way of Being	Jamaal May	2016
Bond and Free	Robert Frost	1916
It’s easy to invent a life (41)	Emily Dickinson	1929
At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)	John Donne	1633
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal	William Wordsworth	1800
On Crime and Punishment	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Against Dying	Kaveh Akbar	2017
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight	Jane Hirshfield	1997
The Sirens	James Russell Lowell	1840
Love	Luis G. Dato	1926
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019

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