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
O Autumn, Autumn!	Effie Lee Newsome	2017
An Instructor’s Dream	Bill Knott	2007
January	William Carlos Williams	2016
Variation on a Theme	W. S. Merwin	2013
Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746	William Collins	1746
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?]	William Shakespeare	1600
Cattails	Nikky Finney	2011
The Supple Deer	Jane Hirshfield	2011
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630
The First Marriage	Peter Meinke	1996
Isolation: To Marguerite	Matthew Arnold	1857
To the Moon [fragment]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1824
Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio	Carl Sandburg	1922
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With	Suzanne Rancourt	2004
On Liberty and Slavery	George Moses Horton	1829
The House on the Hill	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897
Opal	Amy Lowell	1919
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1850
The Cleaving	Li-Young Lee	1990
A Dozen Cocktails Please	Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven	2026

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