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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
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
Family Secret Nancy Kuhl 2023
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
My Love Bruce Nugent 1926
[The faint shadow of the morning moon?] Yone Noguchi 1920
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
Underbelly Nicole Homer
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives Lory Bedikian 2018
In Praise of Okra January Gill O’Neil 2009
A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades June Jordan 2017
Daedalus, After Icarus Saeed Jones 2017
Someone Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
Hoar-Frost Amy Lowell 2015
Darling Coffee Meena Alexander 2015
A Bird Song Christina Rossetti 1873
By the Waters of Babylon [V. Currents] Emma Lazarus 1887
To Night Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
From “The Dead” James Joyce 1914
The Man with the Hoe Edwin Markham 1898

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