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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
When Mama died, I lost my air DéLana R. A. Dameron 2025
The Colored Soldiers Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
A Winter Evening Alexander Pushkin 1910
Once the World Was Perfect Joy Harjo 2018
From a Train Lynn Emanuel 2016
our happiness Eileen Myles 2014
My Childhood Home I See Again Abraham Lincoln 1847
The Labyrinth Jorge Luis Borges 1999
The Kiss Sara Teasdale 1917
The Truth the Dead Know Anne Sexton 1981
In the not-not-woods Malia Maxwell 2026
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
Dogwood Blossoms George Marion McClellan 1922
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017
The Language of the Birds Richard Siken 2011
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
When I Tell My Husband I Miss the Sun, He Knows Paige Lewis 2018
Elegy Before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Winter Trees William Carlos Williams 1921
Song to Celia Ben Jonson 1616

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