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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
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
Ode to People Who Hate Me Carmen Giménez 2023
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
May Day Sara Teasdale 1920
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
All the Thoughts at a Football Game Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
A Man’s A Man For A’ That Robert Burns 1795
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
Snow Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
I Come to See for Myself Nancy Mercado 2024
The Fruits of Death Ameen Rihani 1905
Let There Be Manny Loley 2021
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) Emily Dickinson 1890
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
Silence Thomas Hood 1827
To Elsie William Carlos Williams 1962

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