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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
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
It will be Summer eventually — (195) Emily Dickinson 1929
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
River Roads Carl Sandburg 1918
8. bell hooks 2012
If You Knew Ruth Muskrat Bronson 1923
On Anger Rage Hezekiah 2019
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
A Memory Saeed Jones 2018
To Summer William Blake 2015
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Like Any Good American Brynn Saito 2013
Wild Swans Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Our eunuch dreams Dylan Thomas 1953
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
The Gladness of Nature William Cullen Bryant 1832

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