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
America	James Monroe Whitfield	1853
Bible Defence of Slavery	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1851
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons]	Jenny Boully	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair]	Jenny Boully	2008
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl]	Jenny Boully	2008
The Park (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
Land’s End (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
Tranter in America (audio only)	August Kleinzahler	1995
“King Lear, Act III, Scene II” [Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!]	William Shakespeare	1608
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald]	William Shakespeare	1623
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630
To the Same	John Milton	1694
The Garden	Andrew Marvell	1681
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars	Richard Lovelace	1649
The Retreat	Henry Vaughan	1650
Upon Julia's Clothes	Robert Herrick	1670
The Solitary Reaper	William Wordsworth	1807
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
The Good-Morrow	John Donne	1633

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