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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 Sorrow of Love W. B. Yeats 1893
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
17 Kinds of Hungry Adrian Matejka 2024
Beatitude John Keene 2021
Let No Charitable Hope Elinor Wylie 2023
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
From “This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay” Cody-Rose Clevidence 2023
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
To a Young Dancing Girl Elsa Gidlow 1923
Rhythm of Rain Lynn Riggs 1923
The Tropics in New York Claude McKay 1922
Venus & Serena Play Doubles on Center Court Kate Rushin 2020
A Dedication Lucian B. Watkins 1903
By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame Walt Whitman 1867
Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman

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