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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
Sonnet 12 [Alas, so all things now do hold their peace] Henry Howard 1557
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love John Keats 1819
Sonnet 102 [If no love is, O God, what fele I so?] Petrarch 1375
Drawing from Life Reginald Shepherd 1996
Psalm George Oppen 1965
Lullaby of an Infant Chief Sir Walter Scott 1816
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
To His Coy Love Michael Drayton 1606
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember] Christina Rossetti 1881
Nights Harvey Shapiro 2006
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
Caged Bird Matthew J. Spireng 2002
Baby Tortoise D. H. Lawrence 1964
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Gitanjali 88 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Song of the Cluster Bomblet Soul Vang 2017
Bound Aline Murray Kilmer 2014
Cross-Armed Elvira Hernández 2026
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025

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