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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
Approach of Winter William Carlos Williams 1921
Give Me This Ada Limón 2020
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
November Night Adelaide Crapsey 1915
My Skeleton Jane Hirshfield 2013
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Fear Ciaran Carson 2001
[American Journal] Robert Hayden 1978
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
the suicide kid Charles Bukowski 2005
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes 1906
There was earth inside them Paul Celan 2020
Characteristics of Life Camille T. Dungy 2012
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957

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