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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
Break, Break, Break Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
Emergency Haying Hayden Carruth 2006
Wish We Were Daddies francine j. harris 2026
little prayer Danez Smith 2017
[Here dead lie we because we did not choose] A. E. Housman 2017
Jazzonia Langston Hughes 1926
Peace Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
The Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks 1960
Hyperion John Keats 1820
Ultrasound Kaveh Akbar 2019
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Bai 1916
In the House with No Doors Sarah Kay 2023
A Brook in the City Robert Frost 1923
On Beauty Kahlil Gibran 1923
A Horse Named Never Jennifer Chang 2017
Tomorrow Lope de Vega 1920
a brief meditation on breath Yesenia Montilla 2020
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
The Old Stoic Emily Brontë 1846
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017

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