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
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz	Matthew Olzmann	2016
To Thomas Moore	Lord George Gordon Byron	1830
Green	D. H. Lawrence	1917
The Last Slow Days of Summer	Phillip Lopate	2009
Japanese Lullaby	Eugene Field	1892
The Hag	Robert Herrick	1648
On My First Son	Ben Jonson	1603
Mirabeau Bridge	Guillaume Apollinaire	1995
Burque Summer Solstice	Manuel González	2021
Gitanjali 18	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Rose Song	Anne Reeve Aldrich	1889
Song of Myself, 25	Walt Whitman	1891
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127)	William Shakespeare	1904
Spoils of the Dead	Robert Frost	1915
Nature Aria	Yi Lei	2018
Once All the Hounds Had Been Called Home	Meg Day	2017
The Affliction	Marie Howe	2017
Mother Earth: Her Whales	Gary Snyder	2017
The Sky Over My Mother’s House	Jaime Manrique	2016

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