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
Gitanjali 45	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Booker T. And W.E.B.	Dudley Randall	2009
Joy	Langston Hughes	1926
In the Beginning	Donika Kelly	2021
To the Pine Tree	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	2020
Tender Buttons [A Long Dress]	Gertrude Stein	1914
A Little Tooth	Thomas Lux	1990
On My First Son	Ben Jonson	1603
The Collar	George Herbert	1633
For every bird a nest (79)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Nocturne	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Dreams	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
All the Tired Horses in the Sun	Joy Harjo	2018
Old South Meeting House	January Gill O’Neil	2016
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light	Rachel Eliza Griffiths	2015
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death	Lloyd Schwartz	2014
Lunar Paraphrase	Wallace Stevens	1931
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet 66)	William Shakespeare	1609
A Happy Birthday	Ted Kooser	2004
To the Daisy	William Wordsworth	1807

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