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
Making a Fist	Naomi Shihab Nye	1995
For What Binds Us	Jane Hirshfield	1988
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
Circe	H.D.	2018
Now	Robert Browning	2016
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you	Kevin Varrone	2013
The Goops	Gelett Burgess	1903
My Brother At 3 AM	Natalie Diaz	2012
New American	Huascar Medina	2020
Do Not Speak of the Dead	Cecilia Llompart	2015
Going for Water	Robert Frost	1915
On Time	John Milton	1645
Driving at Night	Rio Cortez	2020
To His Mistress Going to Bed	John Donne	1654
Tear It Down	Jack Gilbert	2001
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]	Christopher Smart	1939
The Vanity of Human Wishes	Samuel Johnson	2018
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity	John Milton	1645
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845

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