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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
Why paint night over nightless day? Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
Untitled for a Reason Tara Betts 2022
Disappointed Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Change on Change Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1846
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
From “Will There Be Singing” Juliana Spahr 2020
Confessional Hieu Minh Nguyen 2019
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
a note on the body Danez Smith 2017
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
The Captured Goddess Amy Lowell 2016
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
Marriage William Carlos Williams 1916
Picture-books in Winter Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923

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