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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.

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Beehive Jean Toomer 1923
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep: (Sonnet 153) William Shakespeare 1904
Those lips that Love’s own hand did make (Sonnet 145) William Shakespeare 1904
That god forbid that made me first your slave (Sonnet 58) William Shakespeare 1904
The Grave of Shelley Oscar Wilde 2018
Goat on a Pile of Scrap Lumber Michael Collier 2018
Sculpture with Fragments of Stuart Hall Christian Campbell 2018
The Robin Witter Bynner 2018
The Broken Man’s Permission Aaron Coleman 2018
revision, impromptu Fred Moten 2018
Five Charms in Praise of Bewilderment Jim Moore 2018
My Beast Made of Gold Is My Vocation G. C. Waldrep 2018
To —— Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Folding a Five-Cornered Star So the Corners Meet Li-Young Lee 2018
In the First Place of My Life Ray Young Bear 2018
Elegy with Icarus and the Heart of a Hummingbird James Hoch 2018
The World's Wanderers Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Tiger Kim Young 2017
from “Soft Targets” Deborah Landau 2017

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