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
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Sonnet 64)	William Shakespeare	1903
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49)	William Shakespeare	1904
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws (Sonnet 19)	William Shakespeare	1904
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend (Sonnet 4)	William Shakespeare	1904
Invocation	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	1860
Then and Now	Thomas Hardy	2018
The Shropshire Lad, III	A. E. Housman	2018
Smile, Smile, Smile	Wilfred Owen	2018
Bear Witness	Tiana Clark	2018
Sexy poem to cover my bases	Emily Hunerwadel	2018
Grasses	Alfred Kreymborg	1920
for you	Eileen Myles	2018
A Young Man	Jericho Brown	2018
The End of a Beginning	Marilyn Chin	1987
In California, Everything Already Looks Like an Afterlife	Megan Fernandes	2017
Ghosts	Kiki Petrosino	2017
The World	Jennifer Chang	2017
Sketch	Carl Sandburg	1916
At the Metropolitan Museum	Matthew Siegel	2017
Appeal	Anne Brontë	2017

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