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
Self-Portrait at 28	David Berman	2013
Night Was Done	Mikhail Kuzmin	1921
Two Loves	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Long Distance II	Tony Harrison	1984
The Walrus and the Carpenter	Lewis Carroll	1872
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning Song	Sylvia Plath	1966
Love’s Philosophy	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1819
From Blossoms	Li-Young Lee	1986
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	Edward Lear	1871
The Red Poppy	Louise Glück	1992
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I [Round about the cauldron go]	William Shakespeare	1623
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me]	William Shakespeare	1603
The Song of Despair	Pablo Neruda	1969
Middle Passage	Robert Hayden	2017
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young	Wilfred Owen	2018
If We Must Die	Claude McKay	1919
In Memoriam, [Ring out, wild bells]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850

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