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
Conscience	Henry David Thoreau	1895
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127)	William Shakespeare	1904
The House of Hospitalities	Thomas Hardy	2018
The Tuft of Flowers	Robert Frost	1915
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise	Diane Seuss	2018
Autumn	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
15¢ Futures	Marilyn Nelson	2015
Marriage	William Carlos Williams	1916
Sonnet 100	Lord Brooke Fulke Greville	1633
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain]	François Villon	1965
Home Burial	Robert Frost	1916
The Chambered Nautilus	Oliver Wendell Holmes	1858
Nostalgia	Matthew Minicucci	2023
A Thing That Happened	Matt Mason	2020
Danse Africaine	Langston Hughes	1924
Cross	Langston Hughes	1922
On the Hill-Side	Radclyffe Hall	1910
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90)	William Shakespeare	1904
Now Close the Windows	Robert Frost	1915

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