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
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse (Sonnet 86)	William Shakespeare	1904
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; (Sonnet 40)	William Shakespeare	1904
The Broken Tablets	Rodger Kamenetz	2018
For shame! Deny that thou bear'st love to any (Sonnet 10)	William Shakespeare	1904
To Germany	Charles Hamilton Sorley	1919
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 Price of Peace	Henry van Dyke	2018
Red Cross Work	Amelia Josephine Burr	2018
Vicarious Atonement	Richard Aldington	2018
A Shropshire Lad, XI	A. E. Housman	2018
Louse Hunting	Isaac Rosenberg	2018
Rally	Elizabeth Alexander	2018
The Dream That I Told My Mother-in-Law	Elizabeth Alexander	2018
Niobe	Henrietta Cordelia Ray	1893
dwelling	Nicole Callihan	2018
From “denouement”	Anne Waldman	2018
Bildungsroman	Sam Sax	2018

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