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
Ah! Sunflower	William Blake	1794
Putting in the Seed	Robert Frost	2016
The Coming of the Ship	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy]	William Shakespeare	2016
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent	John Milton	1655
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you]	William Shakespeare	2016
The Gift to Sing	James Weldon Johnson	2015
Long Island Sound	Emma Lazarus	1888
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards	Kaveh Akbar	2017
A Boy and His Dad	Edgar Guest	1921
Amores (II)	E. E. Cummings	1923
Gitanjali 35	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
Problems with Hurricanes	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Having It out with Melancholy	Jane Kenyon	1993
Blueberries	Robert Frost	1915
The Conundrum of the Workshops	Rudyard Kipling	1890
How I Became a Madman (Prologue)	Kahlil Gibran	1918
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43)	William Shakespeare	1904
To All My Friends	May Yang	2017
Richard Cory	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1897

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