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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
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
Give-Away Song Gwen Westerman 2021
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
Song Langston Hughes 1925
To Sir Toby Philip Freneau 1795
Let Me Not Lose My Dream Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
A Benign Self-Portrait N. Scott Momaday 2019
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
You don't love me, you say, and deflate Gala Mukomolova 2019
Song of Myself, 50 Walt Whitman 1891
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
Against that time, if ever that time come (Sonnet 49) William Shakespeare 1904
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war (Sonnet 46) William Shakespeare 1904
Sun Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
Love and a Question Robert Frost 2018
9th and 2nd Joy Ladin 2018

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