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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
Once, Martha Silano 2024
The War Against Birthdays Josh Bell 2025
At the Pool Effie Lee Newsome 1927
The Ice Cream Man James Tate 2008
I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house. Donika Kelly 2023
Ode Lisa Bickmore 2021
The Return Arna Bontemps 1927
Lines Written During My Second Pandemic Eduardo C. Corral 2022
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
The Grey Thread Elsa Gidlow 1923
I HEART My Cat Still Life Alexandria Peary 2022
Jaguar Song Arthur Sze 2021
A Song on the Water Thomas Lovell Beddoes 2021
Proof Tiana Clark 2021
For a Poet Countee Cullen 1925
The Way We Love Something Small Kimberly Blaeser 2020
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
The Trumpet Edward Thomas 1922
November Cotton Flower Jean Toomer 1923
Lo! as a careful housewife run to catch (Sonnet 143) William Shakespeare 1904

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