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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
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
When I Became La Promesa Peggy Robles-Alvarado 2020
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
Recollections of My Christmas Tree Mary Ruefle 2016
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015
The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1832
The Apparition John Donne 1633
[The dream seems universal, I’ve heard it] Dan Sociu 2026
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
Poem Langston Hughes 1926
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
Endymion Oscar Wilde 2018
Pastoral William Carlos Williams 2016
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014

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