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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
Theft Esther Popel 1925
Fifty Years James Weldon Johnson 1922
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood Henry David Thoreau 1943
Rainy Night Dorothy Parker 1926
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
What She Said Naomi Shihab Nye 2022
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Sock Hop Anis Mojgani 2011
June Sunset Sarojini Naidu 1917
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
A Prayer Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1918
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter John Crowe Ransom 1923
Farewell Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1895
American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the ten things] Terrance Hayes 2019
Boston Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Body Remembers Yusef Komunyakaa 2019
Amores (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
Two loves I have of comfort and despair (Sonnet 144) William Shakespeare 1904
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
Disarmament John McCrae 2018

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