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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
My Little Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
August Dorothy Parker 1926
Crossing the Line E. Ethelbert Miller 2022
Self-Portrait as a Body, a Sea Donika Kelly 2017
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
The Haunted Oak Paul Laurence Dunbar
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904
Hurry Marie Howe 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
Weeds Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
litany Mahogany L. Browne 2016
I Know You Think I've Forgotten Jane Hirshfield 2015
Gabriel Adrienne Rich 2016
The Jungle Megan Fernandes 2015
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick 1648

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