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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
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Bride of Corinth [From my grave to wander] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1853
The Golden Years Billy Collins 2008
Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur 1961
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky 1990
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
Folded Luis Muñoz 2026
It will be Summer eventually — (195) Emily Dickinson 1929
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
Epistemology Catherine Barnett 2017
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
Earth Your Dancing Place May Swenson 2013
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
Stealing The Scream Monica Youn 2003
Gitanjali 2 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
I want Jordan Jace 2022
The courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 1954

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