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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
Before a Painting James Weldon Johnson 2016
Sounds of the Winter Walt Whitman 2015
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
In View of the Fact A. R. Ammons 2005
Question May Swenson 1978
Opal Amy Lowell 1919
The Leaving Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Silhouette Janice Lobo Sapigao 2020
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Anchorage Joy Harjo 2016

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