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
Life	Joe Brainard	2012
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI)	Sir Walter Scott	1805
What He Thought	Heather McHugh	1994
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July	Billy Collins	1998
Jubilate Agno, Fragment B, [For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry]	Christopher Smart	1939
A Cry from an Indian Wife	Emily Pauline Johnson	1900
Thirteen Ways of Looking	Ama Codjoe	2023
THE LAKE —— TO ——	Edgar Allan Poe	2018
A House Divided	Kyle Dargan	2013
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	T. S. Eliot	1920
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798	William Wordsworth	1798
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802	William Wordsworth	1807
Sonnet—Baugmaree	Toru Dutt	1882
An October Garden	Christina Rossetti	2018
Of Love: A Sonnet	Robert Herrick	1648
Kink	Imani Davis	2023
The Language of the Birds	Richard Siken	2011
Peace	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Of Many Worlds in this World	Margaret Cavendish	1653
The Untold Want	Walt Whitman	1891

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