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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
Picture-books in Winter Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Nothing in That Drawer Ron Padgett 1990
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
Sonnet 2 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
To My Mother Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
I’m a Fool to Love You Cornelius Eady 1997
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
Why paint night over nightless day? Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
To a Young Poet Zaina Alsous 2025
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
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
a note on the body Danez Smith 2017
The Captured Goddess Amy Lowell 2016

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