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
Affirmation	Donald Hall	2002
The Eagle	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1851
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
Problems with Hurricanes	Victor Hernández Cruz	2001
Song of Myself, 6 [A child said, What is the grass?]	Walt Whitman	1891
The Tradition	Jericho Brown	2015
Dirge Without Music	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
Merry Autumn	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1900
Home Is so Sad	Philip Larkin	1988
My Last Duchess	Robert Browning	1842
On Living	Nâzim Hikmet	1994
Sea Fever	John Masefield	1917
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now	Matthew Olzmann	2017
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909
Fall	Edward Hirsch	1986
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Spring and Fall	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Flowers from the Volcano	Claribel Alegría	2018

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