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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.

Title Author Year
Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2010
Spring Day [Bath] Amy Lowell 1916
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
The Niagara River Kay Ryan 2005
Milton [Excerpt] William Blake 1811
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
The Weight She Gives Me 2026
Blessing the Baby Diannely Antigua 2024
An Erasure of Senate Bill 1698 (2) Moncho Alvarado 2023
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
Spell for the End of Grief Amie Whittemore 2015
Ever Faithful to You Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
Before you returned Kayte Young 2018
I Want to Save This Whale Lisa Olstein 2018
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
The Fool’s Song William Carlos Williams 2017
When I Read the Book Walt Whitman 1891
Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2016

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