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.

Occasions

Themes

Forms

Search title or text

Title	Author	Year
An Earth Song	Langston Hughes	1925
The courage that my mother had	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1954
Pietà	Rainer Maria Rilke	1922
The Tuft of Flowers	Robert Frost	1915
A Memory	Lola Ridge	1918
The Evening Star	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	2015
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
The Oven-Bird	Robert Frost	1916
Approach of Winter	William Carlos Williams	1921
The Destruction Of Sennacherib	Lord George Gordon Byron	1815
Oh Who Is That Young Sinner	A. E. Housman	1937
Memories of West Street and Lepke	Robert Lowell	1976
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day]	John Greenleaf Whittier	1866
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1–16	Homer	1975
i take my glasses off	Lucille Clifton	2026
In the not-not-woods	Malia Maxwell	2026
Elevator Boy	Langston Hughes	1926
It will be Summer eventually — (195)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Lament	Rainer Maria Rilke	1918
[to keep knowing]	Aracelis Girmay	2023

Page submenu block