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 New Colossus	Emma Lazarus	2018
Antigonish [I met a man who wasn't there]	Hughes Mearns	1922
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1847
When You Are Old	W. B. Yeats	1919
On Friendship	Kahlil Gibran	1923
Hope is the thing with feathers (254)	Emily Dickinson	1890
Haunted Houses	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1858
The Power of the Dog	Rudyard Kipling	1922
Inferno, Canto I	Dante Alighieri	1877
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time	Robert Herrick	1648
[since feeling is first]	E. E. Cummings	1926
Song of Myself, 52	Walt Whitman	1891
The Second Coming	W. B. Yeats	1920
A Shropshire Lad, XL	A. E. Housman	1896
The Star-Spangled Banner	Francis Scott Key	1814
Proverbs of Hell	William Blake	1790
Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	William Wordsworth	1807
[I wandered lonely as a Cloud]	William Wordsworth	1807
Journey of the Magi	T. S. Eliot	1927
Requiem	Robert Louis Stevenson	1887

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