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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
I Want to Die While You Love Me Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Youth Langston Hughes 1925
To Think of Time Walt Whitman 1855
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity John Milton 1645
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 2007
Song of Myself, 31 Walt Whitman 1891
Listening Amy Lowell 2017
Falling Patrick Phillips 2016
Before Ada Limón 2015
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Adrienne Rich 2011
Nine Bluegills Stuart Dybek 2026
In the not-not-woods Malia Maxwell 2026
The Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
Othello, Act I, Scene I [O, sir, content you] William Shakespeare 2016
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale] William Shakespeare 1596
My Friend Tree Lorine Niedecker 1985
Gone with the Swallows Ameen Rihani 1905
A Certain Lady Dorothy Parker 1926
The Lotos-Eaters Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1832

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