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
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Gate	Marie Howe	2017
Bed in Summer	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
On Being Brought from Africa to America	Phillis Wheatley	1773
London	William Blake	1794
It Is a Small Plant	William Carlos Williams	1920
The Specific Ocean	Jenny Browne	2026
Clouds	Anonymous
In the Company of Women	January Gill O’Neil	2014
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
Resignation	Nikki Giovanni	2016
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	Edward Lear	1871
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)	Emily Dickinson	1951
Spring and Fall	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Summer Night, Riverside	Sara Teasdale	1915
The Waste Land	T. S. Eliot	1922
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs]	Pablo Neruda	2016
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923

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