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
No longer mourn for me when I am dead (Sonnet 71)	William Shakespeare	1904
Hymn	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
The Painted Ceiling	Amy Lowell	2018
In the Still, Star-Lit Night	Elizabeth Drew Stoddard	2017
Summer Silence	E. E. Cummings	1913
On the Freedom of the Press	Benjamin Franklin	2017
Prayer at Sunrise	James Weldon Johnson	2015
In Summer Time	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1913
Complaint	William Carlos Williams	1921
Days	Ralph Waldo Emerson	1912
Song on May Morning	John Milton	1645
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long]	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1850
Peace on Earth	William Carlos Williams	1917
Return	John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester	1714
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door]	Alexander Pope	1735
Fletcher McGee	Edgar Lee Masters	1921
Night Was Done	Mikhail Kuzmin	1921
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49)	William Shakespeare	1904
Spring Offensive	Wilfred Owen	2018
The Haunted Palace	Edgar Allan Poe	2018

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