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
May to April	Philip Freneau	1787
The Fugitive’s Wife	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1857
A Mother to the War-Makers	Margaret Widdemer	1915
Do You Know	Alice Duer Miller	1915
Dignity	Too-qua-stee	1904
Females	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1898
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140)	William Shakespeare	1904
Those lines that I before have writ do lie (Sonnet 115)	William Shakespeare	1904
When in the chronicle of wasted time (Sonnet 106)	William Shakespeare	1904
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still (Sonnet 85)	William Shakespeare	1904
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid (Sonnet 79)	William Shakespeare	1904
O, lest the world should task you to recite (Sonnet 72)	William Shakespeare	1904
From fairest creatures we desire increase (Sonnet 1)	William Shakespeare	1904
Live Thy Life	Florence Earle Coates	2018
America Speaks	Florence Earle Coates	2018
The Unconquered Dead	John McCrae	2018
A Shropshire Lad, XI	A. E. Housman	2018
The Factories	Margaret Widdemer	1917
Address to the Deil	Robert Burns	2018
Locked Out	Robert Frost	2018

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