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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
For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet Joy Harjo 2019
Mother Doesn't Want a Dog Judith Viorst 1981
Sailing to Byzantium W. B. Yeats 1928
The Gate Marie Howe 2017
As I Grew Older Langston Hughes 1926
In the Waiting Room Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern David McCord 1952
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 1891
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
The Creation James Weldon Johnson 1927
His Excellency General Washington Phillis Wheatley 1776
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe 2018
The Way Through the Woods Rudyard Kipling 1910
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820
Lullaby W. H. Auden 1940
Requiem Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
After Apple-Picking Robert Frost 1914
Thunderstorm Stack Anne Carson 2015
Theme for English B Langston Hughes 1994

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