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
Departed Days	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1877
When Christmas Comes	Libbie C. Baer	2018
Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,' (Sonnet 135)	William Shakespeare	1904
Your love and pity doth the impression fill (Sonnet 112)	William Shakespeare	1904
Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth (Sonnet 103)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, lest the world should task you to recite (Sonnet 72)	William Shakespeare	1904
If there be nothing new, but that which is (Sonnet 59)	William Shakespeare	1904
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; (Sonnet 40)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Broken Tablets	Rodger Kamenetz	2018
Is it for fear to we a widow's eye (Sonnet 9)	William Shakespeare	1904
Eros the Contagion	Annie Kim	2018
Plain Advice	Jeff Gundy	2018
The Desert	Brandon Shimoda	2018
At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America—November, 1912	Alan Seeger	2018
The Red Flower	Henry van Dyke	2018
Red Cross Work	Amelia Josephine Burr	2018
Vicarious Atonement	Richard Aldington	2018
Disarmament	John McCrae	2018
A Shropshire Lad, XI	A. E. Housman	2018
The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law	Elizabeth Alexander	2018

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