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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 Swan, No. 3 (Hilma af Klint) Victoria Chang 2025
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
The Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky Joy Priest 2023
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
Beeches David St. John 2021
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
To the White Fiends Claude McKay 1922
The Poem Grace Interrupted Mikko Harvey 2019
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
The Candle Indoors Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923

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