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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
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
Epitaph on a Tyrant W. H. Auden 1940
A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
A Nation's Strength William Ralph Emerson 1847
Persephone the Wanderer Louise Glück 2006
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) William Shakespeare 1609
The Lady of Shalott Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray 1751
Autumn Alexander Posey 1910
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I [O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth] William Shakespeare 2016
Autumn Leaves Marilyn Chin 1994
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell] John Keats 1817
Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Poem haunted by the sound of a long e Kerry Sherin Wright 2026

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