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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
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
Navajo Mountain Norla Chee 2022
Soulwork Tracy K. Smith 2021
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
Self James Oppenheim 1916
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cavalry Crossing a Ford Walt Whitman
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
The Poem Grace Interrupted Mikko Harvey 2019
Mont Blanc Percy Bysshe Shelley 1816
The Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
The Planting of the Apple-Tree William Cullen Bryant 1864
Part of Eve's Discussion Marie Howe 1988
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
Sonnet 100 Lord Brooke Fulke Greville 1633
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
If You Get There Before I Do Dick Allen 2003
Peonies Danusha Laméris 2026

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