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
Autumn Leaves	Marilyn Chin	1994
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Singularity	Marie Howe	2019
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
The Negro Speaks of Rivers	Langston Hughes	1994
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	1920
Eternity	William Blake	1880
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth]	William Shakespeare	2016
Sea Fever	John Masefield	1917
Victory	Sherman Alexie	2016
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
Kissing in Vietnamese	Ocean Vuong	2016
Flowers from the Volcano	Claribel Alegría	2018
Perhaps the World Ends Here	Joy Harjo	2015
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909

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