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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
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
On Time Tanka June Jordan 2021
Old South Meeting House January Gill O’Neil 2016
Bleeding May Swenson 2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
poem in praise of menstruation Lucille Clifton 1991
Invitation to Love Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams 1962
Snow-Bound [The sun that brief December day] John Greenleaf Whittier 1866
This Beautiful Planet Dorothea Lasky 2023
The 19th Amendment & My Mama Mahogany L. Browne 2020
Boys Will Be Boys Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891

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