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
Independence Day	Ocean Vuong	2026
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Singularity	Marie Howe	2019
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
The Fish	Marianne Moore	1921
Eternity	William Blake	1880
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes	1994
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	1920
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
Sea Fever	John Masefield	1917
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
Kissing in Vietnamese	Ocean Vuong	2016
Perhaps the World Ends Here	Joy Harjo	2015
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
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918

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