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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
Waiting for Happiness Nomi Stone 2018
From a Train Lynn Emanuel 2016
Winter Trees William Carlos Williams 1921
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali 1987
The Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence 1923
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
Christmastide Christina Rossetti 2018
Natural Criminal Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
For My Mother May Sarton 2016
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you] William Shakespeare 2016
The Desolate Field William Carlos Williams 1921
Lines: 'When the Lamp is Shattered' Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
This Was Once a Love Poem Jane Hirshfield 2001
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
Elegy Before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Tell Me Something Good Ocean Vuong 2015
The Going Thomas Hardy 1914
The Dying Man and the Vulture Kahlil Gibran 2026
The Host of the Air W. B. Yeats 1893

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