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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
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
Spoils of the Dead Robert Frost 1915
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Senior Discount Ali Liebegott 2016
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016
Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
i didn’t eat the sun ire’ne lara silva 0026
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014
Good Hair Sherman Alexie 2011

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