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 Broken Tablets	Rodger Kamenetz	2018
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8)	William Shakespeare	1904
Lo! In the orient when the gracious light (Sonnet 7)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)	William Shakespeare	1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)	William Shakespeare	1904
Look in thy glass, and tell the faces thou viewest (Sonnet 3)	William Shakespeare	1904
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow (Sonnet 2)	William Shakespeare	1904
From fairest creatures we desire increase (Sonnet 1)	William Shakespeare	1904
My Son Asks for the Story About When We Were Birds	Joe Wilkins	2018
Then I Packed You Up the Ridge Like a Brother on My Back	Joe Wilkins	2018
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows	Paige Lewis	2018
Mosquitoland	Nikki Wallschlaeger	2018
Fugue	Suji Kwock Kim	2018
13 Questions for the Next Economy	Susan Briante	2018
An Hymn to the Evening	Phillis Wheatley	1909
The Poem as Epiphyte	Fady Joudah	2018
The Farewell	Kahlil Gibran	1923
On Religion	Kahlil Gibran	1923

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