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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
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky Joy Priest 2023
brd Anthony Cody 2020
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
Conscience Henry David Thoreau 1895
Asking for Roses Robert Frost 2018
I Could Be a Whale Shark Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Autumn Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
Ts'ai Chi'h Ezra Pound 2017
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle] A. E. Housman 2017
Adolescence Claude McKay 2017
Strawberrying May Swenson 2016
ode to the puritan in me Ross Gay 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
Losing It Margaret Gibson 2014
Part of Eve's Discussion Marie Howe 1988
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
Brahma Ralph Waldo Emerson 1857

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