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
Relax	Ellen Bass	2014
Peaches	Adrienne Su	2015
O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love	Anne Carson	2020
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends]	William Shakespeare	1600
Your laughter turns the world to paradise	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off	Hanif Abdurraqib	2019
There was a child went forth every day	Walt Whitman	1900
Paul Robeson	Gwendolyn Brooks	1970
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter]	William Shakespeare	2016
In the Company of Women	January Gill O’Neil	2014
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape]	Rainer Maria Rilke	2016
The Land of Counterpane	Robert Louis Stevenson	1885
Two Loves	Lord Alfred Douglas	1894
Circe	H.D.	1921
Ode to the Head Nod	Elizabeth Acevedo	2020
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You	Natalie Diaz	2019
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	T. S. Eliot	1915
October	Helen Hunt Jackson	2015
When Crimea was still a place of light,	Lyudmyla Khersonska	2026

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