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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 Question Answered William Blake 1905
Wedding Dress Michael Waters 2006
From “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” [On the bus two women argue] Claudia Rankine 2004
You Tell Us What to Do Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm Carl Phillips 2004
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
Chansons Innocentes: I E. E. Cummings 1976
Noon Eugenio Montale 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
On the Wing Christina Rossetti 1904
Displaced Mosab Abu Toha 2022
At Sixty-Five Henri Cole 2022
Lines Written During My Second Pandemic Eduardo C. Corral 2022
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925

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