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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
Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 1843
Kingfisher Hai-Dang Phan 2026
Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
Loneliness Katherine Mansfield 1923
Singularity Marie Howe 2019
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
Love Comes Quietly Robert Creeley 2016
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
Fall Edward Hirsch 1986
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
The Fly William Blake 1794
Life Charlotte Brontë 2016
Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
[O were my love yon Lilac fair] Robert Burns 1793
Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] William Carlos Williams 1962
Chicago Carl Sandburg 1914
Mary's Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale 1830

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