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 Ecstasy	Phillip Lopate	2009
Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind	Carl Sandburg	1922
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald]	William Shakespeare	1623
History	Robert Lowell	1976
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer	Mark Strand	1979
The Tinajera Notebook	Forrest Gander	2011
Red and Satch	Lester Graves Lennon	2026
Rooks	Edward Powys Mathers	1925
Why paint night over nightless day?	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love.	Jalal al-Din Rumi	2022
Of a Certain Friendship	Elsa Gidlow	1923
The House of Night	Ameen Rihani	1921
Not They Who Soar	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Wasteland: on the California Wildfires	Forrest Gander	2020
The Secret of Youth	Micah Daniels	2020
Glory	Gbenga Adesina	2020
Militants to Certain Other Women	Katharine Rolston Fisher	1918
O’ Noblesse O’	Nikky Finney	2019
A Reading from the Book of Exile	Pádraig Ó Tuama	2019
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24)	William Shakespeare	1904

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