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
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144)	William Shakespeare	1904
Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth (Sonnet 103)	William Shakespeare	1904
O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends (Sonnet 101)	William Shakespeare	1904
The forward violet thus did I chide: (Sonnet 99)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, lest the world should task you to recite (Sonnet 72)	William Shakespeare	1904
My Son Asks for the Story About When We Were Birds	Joe Wilkins	2018
Rhapsody	Aditi Machado	2018
The Task	Edward Hirsch	2018
The Money	Eloisa Amezcua	2018
Eros the Contagion	Annie Kim	2018
To a Soldier in Hospital	Winifred M. Letts	2018
The Red Flower	Henry van Dyke	2018
Unsolved	John McCrae	2018
A Memory	Rupert Brooke	2018
Simon the Good	Joyelle McSweeney	2018
S. I. W.	Wilfred Owen	1921
Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)	Charlotte Smith	1797
Written During a Temporary Blindness in the Year 1799	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1848
Owed to the Durag	Joshua Bennett	2018
This Morning, this First Poem	Afaa Michael Weaver	2018

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