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 Song of the Road	José Santos Chocano	1920
The Coming of the Ship	Kahlil Gibran	1923
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale]	William Shakespeare	1596
Short-Order Cook	Jim Daniels	1985
The Dover Bitch	Anthony Hecht	1967
An Ante-Bellum Sermon	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
In the Vault of Morning	Canisia Lubrin	2021
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2019
I Ask My Mother to Sing	Li-Young Lee	2017
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son]	William Shakespeare	1611
our happiness	Eileen Myles	2014
Bond and Free	Robert Frost	1916
The Sparrow	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
On Crime and Punishment	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Song of Myself, V	Walt Whitman	1891
O, Gather Me the Rose	William Ernest Henley	1874
My Dream	Han Yong-un	1926
Eve Remembering	Toni Morrison	2002
Song	T. S. Eliot	2017
The Embrace	Mark Doty	1998

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