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
Long Distance II	Tony Harrison	1984
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
The Fish	Marianne Moore	1921
The Pomegranate	Eavan Boland	1994
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
In Summer	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Up-Hill	Christina Rossetti	1818
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best	Andrea Gibson	2021
Summer in the South	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
For My People	Margaret Walker	2017
Alone	Edgar Allan Poe	1875
Gitanjali 11	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
One Perfect Rose	Dorothy Parker	1926
Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14)	John Donne	1633
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
[Like a white stone]	Anna Akhmatova	1921
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly	Ariana Brown	2026

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