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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
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Be Near Me Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
Poem Langston Hughes 1926
The Crystal Gazer Sara Teasdale 1926
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
Holdfast Robin Beth Schaer 2019
Will You? Carrie Fountain 2019
The Phantom Horsewoman Thomas Hardy 2018
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Nature Aria Yi Lei 2018
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Anchorage Joy Harjo 2016
After the Winter Claude McKay 2015
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991

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