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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
For every bird a nest (79) Emily Dickinson 1929
One Way or Another Maya C. Popa 2022
Ode on Melancholy John Keats 1820
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Moon for Our Daughters Annie Finch 2016
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 2016
14 haiku Sonia Sanchez 2016
Orpheus William Shakespeare 1623
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt] Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
The Wild Swans Li Qingzhao 1918
An Invite to Eternity John Clare 1893
The Dramatists Dorothy Parker 1926
Uriel Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Shaking Hands Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and You Have to Start Again David Welch 2018
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
The Night Migrations Louise Glück 2006
O, Gather Me the Rose William Ernest Henley 1874
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Hart Crane 1920

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