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
Dream Song 4	John Berryman	1959
Dog Around the Block	E. B. White	1930
Sometimes There Is A Day	Naomi Shihab Nye	2019
The Vanity of Human Wishes	Samuel Johnson	2018
Song of Myself, V	Walt Whitman	1891
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	W. B. Yeats	1919
Sojourns in the Parallel World	Denise Levertov	1996
Notes on the Below	Ada Limón	2016
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI)	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1931
R.I.P., My Love	Tory Dent	1999
Adonais, 49–52, [Go thou to Rome]	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1821
The Fifteenth of September	Manuel Acuña	1892
Gitanjali 103	Rabindranath Tagore	1913
A Brook in the City	Robert Frost	1923
THE LAKE —— TO ——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
After Words	Kimberly Blaeser	2018
Of Love: A Sonnet	Robert Herrick	1648
To His Mistress Going to Bed	John Donne	1654
Shadwell Stair	Wilfred Owen	1931
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805

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