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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
Self-Portrait as Artemis Tarfia Faizullah 2015
it was a dream Lucille Clifton 1992
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
Song of Hope Daisy Zamora 1995
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog Kaveh Akbar 2025
[to keep knowing] Aracelis Girmay 2023
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
Coyote Sees Himself in Water Tacey M. Atsitty 2022
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
Day-Dreams Dorothy Parker 1926
Sonnet XLIV Charlotte Smith 2021
August Moonrise Sara Teasdale 1921
A Suggested Campaign Song Alice Duer Miller 1915
The Floral Apron Marilyn Chin 2019
A Shropshire Lad, IV A. E. Housman 2018
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
Hallowe'en John Kendrick Bangs 2017
Astronomers Locate a New Planet Matthew Olzmann 2016
The Wings of Daylight W. S. Merwin 2016

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