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
Song of the Open Road, 1	Walt Whitman	2016
The Red Wheelbarrow	William Carlos Williams	1962
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Jabberwocky	Lewis Carroll	1871
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
[O were my love yon Lilac fair]	Robert Burns	1793
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	1920
Ulysses [excerpt]	James Joyce	1922
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing	Margaret Atwood	1995
I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer	Angel Nafis	2026
You Foolish Men	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	2004
Variation on the Word Sleep	Margaret Atwood	1987
To My Dear and Loving Husband	Anne Bradstreet	1678
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
Leap Year Poem	Mother Goose	1719
To make a prairie (1755)	Emily Dickinson	1951
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
In a Station of the Metro	Ezra Pound	1926
The Sea Is History	Derek Walcott	2007

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