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
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
Anthem for Doomed Youth	Wilfred Owen	1920
Morning Song	Sylvia Plath	1966
Bed in Summer	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Eletelephony	Laura Elizabeth Richards	1932
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
To make a prairie (1755)	Emily Dickinson	1951
Beans	Mary Oliver	2004
Singularity	Marie Howe	2019
Ulysses [excerpt]	James Joyce	1922
August	Algernon Charles Swinburne	1904
To me, fair friend, you never can be old (Sonnet 104)	William Shakespeare	2016
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
London	William Blake	1794
A Small Needful Fact	Ross Gay	2016
The New Love	Dorothy Parker	1926
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done]	William Shakespeare	2016
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs]	Pablo Neruda	2016
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900

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