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
London	William Blake	1794
When the Frost is on the Punkin	James Whitcomb Riley	1911
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
The Snow Man	Wallace Stevens	1954
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
“The world is a beautiful place”	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	2017
Deer Hit	Jon Loomis	2001
Quarantine	Eavan Boland	2008
The Conditional	Ada Limón	2013
Morning in the Burned House	Margaret Atwood	1995
The Sun Rising	John Donne	1635
My Papa’s Waltz	Theodore Roethke	1942
Habitation	Margaret Atwood	2016
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)	Emily Dickinson	1951
To My Dear and Loving Husband	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene II [Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds]	William Shakespeare	1597
How to Triumph Like a Girl	Ada Limón	2018

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