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 Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
So we’ll go no more a roving	Lord George Gordon Byron	1830
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses]	W. H. Auden	1930
To the Pine Tree	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	2020
The Widening Sky	Edward Hirsch	2003
Self-Portrait	Adam Zagajewski	1997
The Plain Sense of Things	Wallace Stevens	2011
Renascence	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1956
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With	Suzanne Rancourt	2004
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
Incident	Countee Cullen	1927
August Moonrise	Sara Teasdale	1921
how to say	Safia Elhillo	2017
Ever	Meghan O’Rourke	2015
The Sound of the Trees	Robert Frost	1916
That This	Susan Howe	2011
I Am a Black Woman	Mari Evans	2007
What I Would Like to Grow in My Garden	Katherine Riegel	2018
On Talking	Kahlil Gibran	1923

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