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
Faces in the Street	Henry Lawson	1903
Dirge Without Music	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
Love	Luis G. Dato	1926
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)	William Shakespeare	1609
The Patience of Ordinary Things	Pat Schneider	2019
The Moose	Elizabeth Bishop	1979
One Perfect Rose	Dorothy Parker	1926
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
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian	Ross Gay	2016
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]	John Keats	1818
Your Catfish Friend	Richard Brautigan	1989
Summer in the South	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1903
The Sea Is History	Derek Walcott	2007
There was a child went forth every day	Walt Whitman	1900
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)	William Shakespeare	1904
Love Comes Quietly	Robert Creeley	2016
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	Wilfred Owen	2018
[To find a kiss of yours]	Federico García Lorca	2017
The Mosquito Knows	D. H. Lawrence	1923
Morning Song	Sylvia Plath	1966

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