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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
Love’s Language Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1901
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
November Lucy Larcom 1881
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Say over again... (Sonnet 21) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Two Countries Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
This Evening Let’s Adrienne Rich 2004
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Death of an Old Seaman Langston Hughes 1926
Danse Africaine Langston Hughes 1924

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