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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
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Gertrude Stein Mina Loy 1924
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
Body Language Pramila Venkateswaran 2025
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Beatitude John Keene 2021
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Carbon Dating Billy Collins 2022
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
Deer’s Breath of Every Color Max Early 2022
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
More Than Something Else Rainy Dawn Ortiz 2020
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall 1890
The British Prison Ship Philip Freneau 1780
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922

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