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
The Stolen Child	W. B. Yeats	1889
Ars Poetica	Archibald MacLeish	1926
Novel	Arthur Rimbaud	2002
Not Waving but Drowning	Stevie Smith	1972
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time*	Countee Cullen	1925
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour	Wallace Stevens	1954
The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I [The quality of mercy is not strained]	William Shakespeare	1600
Loveliest of Trees	A. E. Housman	1896
Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI, [My Native Land]	Sir Walter Scott	1805
The Land of Counterpane	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	W. B. Yeats	1889
Love’s Philosophy	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
Before You Came	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1991
A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters (audio only)	June Jordan	1992
Little Orphant Annie	James Whitcomb Riley	1885
Ozymandias	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1818
A Blessing	James Wright	2005
Life is Fine	Langston Hughes	1994
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage]	William Shakespeare	1623
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)	William Shakespeare	1609

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