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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
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
A Man may make a Remark (952) Emily Dickinson 1890
From A. Van Jordan 2004
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
No, Love Is Not Dead Robert Desnos 1991
The Routine Things Around the House Stephen Dunn 2006
The Hour and What Is Dead Li-Young Lee 1990
Coming Close Philip Levine 1991
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
a faith like yours Mayda del Valle 2014
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
The Plot Against the Giant Wallace Stevens 1923
O Earth (Land Day Poem) Refaat Alareer 2024
Once, Martha Silano 2024
Why paint night over nightless day? Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Third Grade Georgia A. Popoff 2024
At the Pool Effie Lee Newsome 1927
I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house. Donika Kelly 2023

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