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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 Ghost’s Petition Christina Rossetti 2018
The Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Stories About Love / Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas Jason Schneiderman 2017
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
The Oven-Bird Robert Frost 1916
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Part of Eve's Discussion Marie Howe 1988
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
A Family History Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026
Love’s Language Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1901
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
Danse Africaine Langston Hughes 1924
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
On the Religion of Nature Philip Freneau 1815
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 1895
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920

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