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
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now	Matthew Olzmann	2017
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Chicago	Carl Sandburg	1914
Song of the Open Road, 1	Walt Whitman	2016
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital]	William Carlos Williams	1962
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Love Comes Quietly	Robert Creeley	2016
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
anyone lived in a pretty how town	E. E. Cummings	1976
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Fly	William Blake	1794
Thanksgiving	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	2017
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth	Fatimah Asghar	2019
Epitaph on a Tyrant	W. H. Auden	1940
Fall	Edward Hirsch	1986
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	Wilfred Owen	2018
Leda and the Swan	W. B. Yeats	1923
[To find a kiss of yours]	Federico García Lorca	2017
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900

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