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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
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Gay Marriage Poem Jenny Johnson 2017
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Mother Lola Ridge 1920
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
Fire Dreams Carl Sandburg 1918
The Things Donald Hall 2011
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
In the Surgical Theatre Dana Levin 1999
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
Tithonus Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1860
In Jerusalem Mahmoud Darwish 2005
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
Devotion Tracy K. Smith 2026
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904

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