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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
This Is Not Love Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Self-Portrait with Eraser Andrea Cohen 2018
A Boy Can Wear a Dress John Bosworth 2018
Evening Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing Walt Whitman 1892
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Even the most kindhearted white woman] Terrance Hayes 2017
FaceTime Clint Smith 2017
Tuesday 9/11/01 Lucille Clifton 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid Diane Seuss 2015
Hospital Writing Workshop Rafael Campo 2014
Pear Tree H.D. 1919
Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Jenny Kiss'd Me Leigh Hunt 1838
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922

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