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
Bread Upon the Waters	D. H. Lawrence	1919
Fragment: Questions	Percy Bysshe Shelley	1902
The Wild Common	D. H. Lawrence	2017
Déjeuner Sur L’Herbe	Edith Sitwell	1918
The Thaw	Henry David Thoreau	1895
My Light with Yours	Edgar Lee Masters	2015
from Oracles for Youth	Caroline Gilman	1852
Diligence Is to Magic as Progress Is to Flight	Marianne Moore	1915
Epigram on Rough Roads	Robert Burns	1786
An Ode to Himself	Ben Jonson	1640
Ballad of a Wedding	Sir John Suckling	1646
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94)	William Shakespeare	1609
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior	Ben Jonson	1640
From “The Temple of Nature,” Canto I (The Production of Life) [III. Now rose in purple pomp the breezy dawn,]	Erasmus Darwin	1791
I’d Have You Think of Me	Djuna Barnes	1923
Fairies and Brownies	Gertrude P. McBrown	1927
The Last Morning in the Country	Leonora Speyer	1921
Old Age	Maxwell Bodenheim	1918
Gitanjali 78	Rabindranath Tagore	1916
Gitanjali 86	Rabindranath Tagore	1913

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