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
Do not go gentle into that good night	Dylan Thomas	1937
Because I could not stop for Death (479)	Emily Dickinson	1951
O Captain! My Captain!	Walt Whitman	1891
And death shall have no dominion	Dylan Thomas	1943
Daddy	Sylvia Plath	1981
In Flanders Fields	John McCrae	1915
Crossing the Bar	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1889
Warm Summer Sun	Mark Twain	1896
For Keeps	Joy Harjo	2019
Dirge Without Music	Edna St. Vincent Millay	2016
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London	Dylan Thomas	1952
It Was Like This: You Were Happy	Jane Hirshfield	2006
Go Down, Death	James Weldon Johnson	1927
Song [When I am dead, my dearest]	Christina Rossetti	1862
I heard a Fly buzz (465)	Emily Dickinson	1998
If I should die (54)	Emily Dickinson	1860
Loss	Winifred M. Letts	2018
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards	Kaveh Akbar	2017
Travelling	William Wordsworth	1802
Night Funeral in Harlem	Langston Hughes	1994

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