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
Dust of Snow	Robert Frost	1920
The Present Crisis	James Russell Lowell	1845
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	Edward Lear	1871
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me]	William Shakespeare	1603
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne]	William Shakespeare	1623
Summer Song	William Carlos Williams	1917
Tender Buttons [Objects]	Gertrude Stein	1914
Alone	Edgar Allan Poe	1875
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50)	William Shakespeare	1904
Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	1820
The Song My Paddle Sings	Emily Pauline Johnson	1917
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world]	William Shakespeare	2017
The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
Nonsense Alphabet	Edward Lear	1846
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon	Wallace Stevens	1921
Harlem: The Black City	Fenton Johnson	1916
To An Athlete Dying Young	A. E. Housman	1896
The Calf-Path	Sam Foss	1895
Travel	Robert Louis Stevenson	1913
Bury Me in a Free Land	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854

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