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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
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
To a Steam Roller Marianne Moore 1921
Blue Dementia Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Snow Song Frank Dempster Sherman 1897
The Vampire Bride [I am come-I am come!] Henry Thomas Liddell 1833
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
Stillbirth Laure-Anne Bosselaar 2007
Monna Innominata [I loved you first] Christina Rossetti 1881
Olympia Henri Cole 2003
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
A House in Taos Langston Hughes 1927
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
Against Despair: The Kid Goat Nickole Brown 2018
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
Changing Is Not Vanishing Carlos Montezuma 1916
An Earth Song Langston Hughes 1925
Ode to Sudanese-Americans Safia Elhillo 2021

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