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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
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray 1751
In Memoriam A. H. H. Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Elegy on a Dead Mermaid Washed Ashore at Plymouth Rock Robert Hillyer 1923
Elegy for My Grandmother in the Form of a Cactus Julia Bouwsma 2023
On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philips Anna Williams 1766
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
To John Keats, Poet, at Springtime Countee Cullen 1927
Homage to Darío Arturo Giménez Pastor 1918
Last Privacy Scott Hightower 2022
Karma Elena Karina Byrne 2022
Shorn, treaded red Asiya Wadud 2022
How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter, Lauren K. Alleyne 2022
In Memory of E. M. EL—K. Ameen Rihani 1905
Remember the Puns & Brashbrandy Matt Gonzalez 2022
Late Fermata Jenny Browne 2022
Night Needs No Stars Youmna Chlala 2022
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
The Mud Sermon Ishion Hutchinson 2021
Childhood Elegy Joseph O. Legaspi 2007
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021

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