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
Your love and pity doth the impression fill (Sonnet 112)	William Shakespeare	1904
The forward violet thus did I chide: (Sonnet 99)	William Shakespeare	1904
So oft I invoke thee for my Muse (Sonnet 78)	William Shakespeare	1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58)	William Shakespeare	1904
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence (Sonnet 51)	William Shakespeare	1904
How can my Muse want subject to invent (Sonnet 38)	William Shakespeare	1904
My Son Asks for the Story About When We Were Birds	Joe Wilkins	2018
Invocation	Jane Johnston Schoolcraft	1860
To a Soldier in Hospital	Winifred M. Letts	2018
A Shropshire Lad, VIII	A. E. Housman	2018
Jeju Island	E. J. Koh	2018
My Poem for My Stepdaughter	Prageeta Sharma	2018
She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1911
The Send-Off	Wilfred Owen	2018
Sonnet LXX. (On Being Cautioned against Walking on Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.)	Charlotte Smith	1797
The Origin of Birds	Nicole Callihan	2018
From “Romance”	Chelsey Minnis	2018
Bildungsroman	Sam Sax	2018
My Father as Cartographer	Natasha Trethewey	2018
memories of the good daughter	Roque Raquel Salas Rivera	2018

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