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
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148)	William Shakespeare	1904
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128)	William Shakespeare	1904
Ah! wherefore with infection should he live (Sonnet 67)	William Shakespeare	1904
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (Sonnet 46)	William Shakespeare	1904
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24)	William Shakespeare	1904
Smile, Smile, Smile	Wilfred Owen	2018
Canto V	Ezra Pound
Haiku [i count the morning]	Sonia Sanchez	2018
The Things That Count	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1919
In Praise of Okra	January Gill O’Neil	2009
Modern Love: XXXVI	George Meredith	1909
Christmas in the Heart	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1922
Poem of Regret for an Old Friend	Meghan O’Rourke	2017
Lunch Break	Francisco Aragón	2016
Blind Boone’s Apparitions	Tyehimba Jess	2016
Circuitry	Janine Joseph	2016
Blue Vase	Cynthia Zarin	2016
Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging	Carl Adamshick	2014
Alive	Naomi Shihab Nye	2010
The Hug	Thom Gunn	2009

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