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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
Again Ross Gay 2016
Christabel [excerpt] Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
That Sure is My Little Dog Eleanor Lerman 2005
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Still A. R. Ammons 1986
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
People and a Heron Robinson Jeffers 1925
Albondigas Richard Siken 2025
Love’s Language Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1901
Navajo Mountain Norla Chee 2022
Family Reunion Rita Dove 2007
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
Puerto Rican Discovery #3: Not Neither Sandra María Esteves 2017
The Bronze Legacy Effie Lee Newsome 1922
The Wings of Daylight W. S. Merwin 2016
Central America in My Heart Oscar Gonzales 2016

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