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 Land of Nod	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [Blow, blow, thou winter wind]	William Shakespeare	1623
How to Apologize	Ellen Bass	2021
To a Dead Friend	Langston Hughes	1922
The Way One Animal Trusts Another	Carl Phillips	2016
The Language of the Birds	Richard Siken	2011
Holy Thursday	William Blake	1794
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion]	Petrarch	2004
The Sleeper	Edgar Allan Poe	1846
Song of Myself, 18	Walt Whitman	1891
Notes on the Below	Ada Limón	2016
Sojourns in the Parallel World	Denise Levertov	1996
One Train May Hide Another	Kenneth Koch	1994
For a Daughter Who Leaves	Janice Mirikitani	2002
The Spacious Firmament on high	Joseph Addison	1712
Ode on a Line by Marie Howe	Michelle Bitting	2026
Love is too young to know what conscience is: (Sonnet 151)	William Shakespeare	1904
Autumn Ritual with Hate Turned Sideways	Brenda Hillman	2016
Pirate Story	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
The Leaving	Brigit Pegeen Kelly	1988

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