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
Song of Myself, 42	Walt Whitman	1891
Song of Myself, 40	Walt Whitman	1891
Songs (IV)	E. E. Cummings	1925
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: (Sonnet 153)	William Shakespeare	1904
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame (Sonnet 5)	William Shakespeare	1904
The White Ships and the Red	Joyce Kilmer	2018
Arms and the Boy	Wilfred Owen	2018
A Dream Pang	Robert Frost	2018
Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	Maggie Smith	2018
Sence you went away	James Weldon Johnson	1922
A Hundred Collars	Robert Frost	2018
As due by many titles I resign (Holy Sonnet II)	John Donne	2018
Love in the Ruins	Jim Moore	2018
Roof Nightclub	Ishion Hutchinson	2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird	James Hoch	2018
XXVIII [“Truth,” said a traveller]	Stephen Crane	2017
Exhibit 1	Susan Barba	2017
Goodnight, Great Summer Sky	Rose Styron	2017
Notes on the Peanut	June Jordan	2017

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