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 courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2017
The Soul unto itself (683)	Emily Dickinson	1951
The Falling of the Leaves	W. B. Yeats	2017
The Waking	Theodore Roethke	2017
I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1920
The First Snowfall	James Russell Lowell	1847
Nesting Dolls	Danielle Hanson	2025
The Rider	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
Parent's Pantoum	Carolyn Kizer	1996
Ghost House	Robert Frost	1913
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	2016
In Summer	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)	William Shakespeare	1609
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part]	William Shakespeare	2017
Re-Statement of Romance	Wallace Stevens	2016
The Sick Rose	William Blake	1794
So Long!	Walt Whitman	1891
For Kathryn	Laura Tohe	2021
Crepuscule	E. E. Cummings	1917
Magdalene—The Seven Devils	Marie Howe	2016

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