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
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon]	Gertrude Stein	1914
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind]	William Wordsworth	1815
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129)	William Shakespeare	1609
Recuerdo	Edna St. Vincent Millay	1922
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Early Affection	George Moses Horton	1865
George Moses Horton, Myself	George Moses Horton	1865
America	James Monroe Whitfield	1853
Bible Defence of Slavery	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1851
Learning to Read	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	1854
On Shakespeare	John Milton	1630
To the Same	John Milton	1694
Upon Julia's Clothes	Robert Herrick	1670
Lycidas	John Milton	1638
The Good-Morrow	John Donne	1633
The Windhover	Gerard Manley Hopkins	1918
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15)	William Shakespeare	1609
Mr. Flood's Party	Edwin Arlington Robinson	1921
Ballad of a Wedding	Sir John Suckling	1646
Untitled [Tis now since I sate down before]	Sir John Suckling	1848

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