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
Deer Hit	Jon Loomis	2001
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky	Lewis Carroll	1882
To the Daisy	William Wordsworth	1807
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Marshes of Glynn	Sidney Lanier	1878
The Day Is Done	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1845
The Testing-Tree	Stanley Kunitz	1971
Tell Me a Story	Robert Penn Warren	1985
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing	Margaret Atwood	1995
The Elephant is Slow to Mate	D. H. Lawrence	1964
Grass	Carl Sandburg	1918
Love’s Secret	William Blake	1863
My People	Langston Hughes	1922
Travelling	William Wordsworth	1802
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt]	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478
The Land of Story-books	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
To All My Friends	May Yang	2017
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	W. B. Yeats	1919
A Decade	Amy Lowell	1921
We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born	Oscar Gonzales	2016

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