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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
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
Archipelago Kendel Hippolyte 2018
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
The Woodlice Aracelis Girmay 2015
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 1933
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
Flying Sarah Arvio 2002
Stanzas Emily Brontë 1846
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Navajo Mountain Norla Chee 2022
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926

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