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 Trial by Existence	Robert Frost	1915
After Words	Kimberly Blaeser	2018
Frederick Douglass	Robert Hayden	2017
The Leash	Ada Limón	2016
Only a Dad	Edgar Guest	1916
Shadwell Stair	Wilfred Owen	1931
Adonais, 49–52, [Go thou to Rome]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1821
It was not Death, for I stood up (510)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216)	Emily Dickinson	1890
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
This Was Once a Love Poem	Jane Hirshfield	2001
The Going	Thomas Hardy	1914
When Malindy Sings	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1901
Gacela of the Dark Death	Federico García Lorca	1973
Near the Cascades	Ameen Rihani	1905
If They Come For Us	Fatimah Asghar	2017
Replica of The Thinker	Matthew Olzmann	2016
The Giaour [Unquenched, unquenchable]	Lord George Gordon Byron	1813
The Chambered Nautilus	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1858
In my craft or sullen art	Dylan Thomas

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