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
The Sun Rising	John Donne	1635
Singularity	Marie Howe	2019
Fire and Ice	Robert Frost	1920
The Fall of Rome	W. H. Auden	1940
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r	E. E. Cummings	1923
Victory	Sherman Alexie	2016
Eternity	William Blake	1880
My life had stood a loaded gun (143)	Emily Dickinson	1929
Kissing in Vietnamese	Ocean Vuong	2016
A Jelly-Fish	Marianne Moore	1909
Flowers from the Volcano	Claribel Alegría	2018
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down.	Andrea Gibson	2023
Perhaps the World Ends Here	Joy Harjo	2015
The Rhodora	Ralph Waldo Emerson
To a Stranger	Walt Whitman	1900
La Belle Dame Sans Merci	John Keats	1819
Sea Fever	John Masefield	1917
God’s Grandeur	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896

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