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
River Roads	Carl Sandburg	1918
Sonnet XLIV	Charlotte Smith	2021
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning	Leila Chatti	2021
The Tuft of Flowers	Robert Frost	1915
“The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour”	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
The Thinker	William Carlos Williams	2015
Before I Was a Gazan	Naomi Shihab Nye	2014
Acrostic	Lewis Carroll	1861
To a Young Poet	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
Poem [I do not always understand what you say.]	James Schuyler	1993
Work Without Hope	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1825
Poem [Your breath was shed]	Dylan Thomas	1946
The Moment	Marie Howe	2011
We Manage Most When We Manage Small	Linda Gregg	2008
Theme in Yellow	Carl Sandburg	1916
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866	John Milton	1667
A Shropshire Lad, XIII	A. E. Housman	1896
Possum Crossing	Nikki Giovanni	2003
II [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.]	W. H. Auden	1930
The Heart is the capital (138)	Emily Dickinson	1929

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