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
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Home Is so Sad	Philip Larkin	1988
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
Affirmation	Donald Hall	2002
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Dirge Without Music	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
Eletelephony	Laura Elizabeth Richards	1932
A Season in Hell	Arthur Rimbaud	1991
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies	June Jordan	2017
Merry Autumn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1900
Sea Fever	John Masefield	1917
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023

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