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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
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27) William Shakespeare 1904
If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert Natalie Diaz 2021
Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 1843
Election Day, November, 1884 Walt Whitman 1891
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
Singularity Marie Howe 2019
Bluebeard Safiya Sinclair 2026
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
The Fly William Blake 1794
Loneliness Katherine Mansfield 1923
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)] Adrienne Rich 2016
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016

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