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
[I come weary,]	Matsuo Bashō	1899
The Dawn’s Awake!	Otto Leland Bohanan	1922
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54)	William Shakespeare	1904
At a Window	Carl Sandburg	1916
Archipelago	Kendel Hippolyte	2018
a note on the body	Danez Smith	2017
We Should Make a Documentary About Spades	Terrance Hayes	2017
A Bell, Still Unrung	Safiya Sinclair	2016
The Inward Morning	Henry David Thoreau	2016
In Tongues	Tonya M. Foster	2015
Wild Swans	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World	Richard Wilbur	2004
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy	Terrance Hayes	2010
Monna Innominata [I loved you first]	Christina Rossetti	1881
That Sure is My Little Dog	Eleanor Lerman	2005
The Baite	John Donne	1633
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,]	Christina Rossetti	1872
Death of an Old Seaman	Langston Hughes	1926
I, Lover	Elsa Gidlow	1923
Ode to the Sun	Eloise Bibb Thompson	1900

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