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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
My Friends Ali Power 2017
The Captured Goddess Amy Lowell 2016
Binsey Poplars Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
playing with fire Evie Shockley 2011
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
Part of Eve's Discussion Marie Howe 1988
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
August Moonrise Sara Teasdale 1921

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