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
In the Home Stretch	Robert Frost	2018
To Frances S. Osgood	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
To ——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
Watershed	Tracy K. Smith	2017
The Dreams of the Dreamer	Georgia Douglas Johnson	1918
A Sunset	Ari Banias	2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed]	William Shakespeare	2016
thirteen ways of looking at the towers: a 9/11 poem ten years later (audio only)	Evie Shockley	2013
From “Gabriel” [The evening with its lamps burning]	Edward Hirsch	2014
On the Road to the Sea	Charlotte Mew	1914
Wedding Cake	Naomi Shihab Nye	1998
The Twenty-Third Psalm	Sir Philip Sidney	1823
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot	Jalal al-Din Rumi	1898
Corinna's Going a-Maying	Robert Herrick	1648
In the Village	Derek Walcott	2010
The Heart of the Woman	W. B. Yeats	1899
The Ghazal of What Hurt	Peter Cole	2008
Assault	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1921
Winter Twilight	Anne Porter	2006
A Political Litany	Philip Freneau	1775

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