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
A Walk Round the Park	Sandra Lim	2019
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp	Thomas Moore	2019
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter	Mary Jean Chan	2019
Blood History	Reginald Dwayne Betts	2019
Billy in the Darbies	Herman Melville	1924
The End	Hélder Faife	2019
That’s My Heart Right There	Willie Perdomo	2019
Shainadas	Brandon Som	2019
Georgia Dusk	Jean Toomer	1923
Winter Walk	John Clare	1836
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63)	William Shakespeare	1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
So is it not with me as with that Muse (Sonnet 21)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
Fame	Charlotte Mew	1921
A Shropshire Lad, XII	A. E. Housman	1922
In the Gold Room	Oscar Wilde	2018
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2	Tiana Clark	2018
for you	Eileen Myles	2018

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