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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
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Siri as Mother Hala Alyan 2024
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
On Desire Dujie Tahat 2022
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
The Christmas Holly Eliza Cook 2017
Rooms Remembered Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2015
Wonder and Joy Robinson Jeffers 1916
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Bride of Corinth [From my grave to wander] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1853
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922
Meanwhile the elephants Mark Wagenaar 2018
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018

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