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
Song of Myself, 8	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (VI)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me (Sonnet 132)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art (Sonnet 131)	William Shakespeare	1904
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid (Sonnet 79)	William Shakespeare	1904
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Sonnet 64)	William Shakespeare	1903
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49)	William Shakespeare	1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)	William Shakespeare	1904
Invocation	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	1860
A Sonnet [XXXIV]	Charles Hamilton Sorley	1919
Then and Now	Thomas Hardy	2018
The Shropshire Lad, III	A. E. Housman	2018
Grasses	Alfred Kreymborg	1920
A Young Man	Jericho Brown	2018
The End of a Beginning	Marilyn Chin	1987
In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife	Megan Fernandes	2017
Ghosts	Kiki Petrosino	2017
The World	Jennifer Chang	2017
Your Own Palm	Tarfia Faizullah	2017
At the Metropolitan Museum	Matthew Siegel	2017

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