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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
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
Spirit Maggie Nelson 2005
The Cross of Snow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1879
Fletcher McGee Edgar Lee Masters 1921
Words Dana Gioia 2001
A Terre Wilfred Owen 2018
Noon Eugenio Montale 2026
Statement of Purpose Kyle Carrero Lopez 2026
Whatever the ways of the world, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
In life I’m no longer capable of love, Diane Seuss 2025
At the Mid Hour of Night Thomas Moore 1903
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
Seven Steps to Heaven Haiku Tony Medina 2024
Displaced Mosab Abu Toha 2022
dream where every black person is standing by the ocean Danez Smith 2022
A Song of Thanks Edward Smyth Jones 1922
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
A Death Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
June Sunset Sarojini Naidu 1917

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