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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 Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison Nâzim Hikmet 1994
On Reason and Passion Kahlil Gibran 1923
In the Desert Stephen Crane 2017
The courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Six Months After Contemplating Suicide Erika L. Sánchez 2016
The light of a candle Yosa Buson 2007
Waking in the Blue Robert Lowell 1976
Noise Amanda Hernández 2026
The Cocoon Robert Frost 1927
Outcast Claude McKay 1922
[little tree] E. E. Cummings 1920
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
We Have Been Friends Together Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1840
The Snow Storm Ralph Waldo Emerson 1856
In the Still, Star-Lit Night Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
October Hills John Rollin Ridge 2017
Ode to the Confederate Dead Allen Tate 1937
9. E. E. Cummings 2010
One Train May Hide Another Kenneth Koch 1994

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