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 Land of Nod	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
The Voice	Thomas Hardy	1915
On My First Son	Ben Jonson	1603
On Growing Old	John Masefield	1919
Move	Alicia Ostriker	2018
For My Mother	May Sarton	2016
Prayer of the Backhanded	Jericho Brown	2016
The Old Stoic	Emily Brontë	1846
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
Be Near Me	Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1987
For a Daughter Who Leaves	Janice Mirikitani	2002
Self-Portrait	Adam Zagajewski	1997
Gacela of the Dark Death	Federico García Lorca	1973
Gitanjali 69	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
A Meeting	Edith Wharton	2019
The Bonfire	Robert Frost	2018
Given to Rust	Vievee Francis	2017
To Sleep	John Keats	2017
Sometimes There Is A Day	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
The White Witch	James Weldon Johnson	1922

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