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
Let Birds	Linda Gregg	2009
August	Algernon Charles Swinburne	1904
Nocturne	Sadakichi Hartmann	1904
Summer Stars	Carl Sandburg	1920
The Body Remembers	Yusef Komunyakaa	2019
A Bird Song	Christina Rossetti	1873
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1797
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy	Gabrielle Calvocoressi	2015
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I]	William Shakespeare	1623
The Idea of Order at Key West	Wallace Stevens	1954
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say	Danez Smith	2019
Ground Swell	Mark Jarman	1997
I Sought the Wood in Winter	Willa Cather	1903
Idyll	Siegfried Sassoon	1920
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
Answer July	Emily Dickinson	1862
Summer Triptych	Linda Pastan	2015
Summer Rain	Amy Lowell	1919
Strawberrying	May Swenson	2016
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood	Henry David Thoreau	1943

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