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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
Ex Nothing Cecilia Vicuña 2026
Cross-Armed Elvira Hernández 2026
My mother looks Manuel Iris 2025
Unforgotten William Rose Benét 2025
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
At the Pool Effie Lee Newsome 1927
  Oh! snatched away in Beauty's bloom Lord George Gordon Byron 1898
The Ice Cream Man James Tate 2008
When You're Away, I Consider Form Christine Stewart-Nuñez 2021
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad Wallace Stevens 1921
Poem Without Love Tarfia Faizullah 2023
Instructions Before Stuttering JJJJJerome Ellis 2023
Gitanjali 31 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Gitanjali 88 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
From the Stone Age Alice Corbin Henderson 1918
Per aspera ad astra Huascar Medina 2017
For Mauna a Wākea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2022
After the Quarrel Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
It Bruises, Too Kwame Dawes 2022
In Time of War Carolyn Forché 2020

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