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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
Autumn Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
The Evening Star Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2015
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost 2013
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well Mahmoud Darwish 2007
The Lemon Trees Eugenio Montale 2002
A Family History Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
How to Apologize Ellen Bass 2021
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who will believe my verse in time to come (Sonnet 17) William Shakespeare 1904
Pokeberries Ruth Stone 2017
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
Again Ross Gay 2016
Hunch Jay Parini 2016
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016

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