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
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	Thomas Gray	1751
The Patience of Ordinary Things	Pat Schneider	2019
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
The Gift to Sing	James Weldon Johnson	2015
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]	John Keats	1818
To Prisoners	Gwendolyn Brooks	2018
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
Ode to the West Wind	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1820
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280)	Emily Dickinson	1951
Tamerlane	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
The Sun Rising	John Donne	1635
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best	Andrea Gibson	2021
from The Vision of Sir Launfal	James Russell Lowell	1848
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27)	William Shakespeare	1904
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
Summer Sun	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
The Pomegranate	Eavan Boland	1994
A Red, Red Rose	Robert Burns	1794
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1798
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854

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