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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
I Want to Save This Whale Lisa Olstein 2018
Two Set Out on Their Journey Galway Kinnell 2018
Echolocation Sally Bliumis-Dunn 2016
[we fight back to control the outside] kari edwards 2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
On Virtue Phillis Wheatley 1773
I Am Alive in Los Angeles! Mike Sonksen 2015
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration Julie Carr 2014
Aspiration Henrietta Cordelia Ray 1910
When There Were Ghosts Alberto Ríos 2014
The Flight Sara Teasdale 1915
The Helmsman H.D. 1916
A New Law Greg Delanty 2010
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
La Vie C’est La Vie Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
The Metier of Blossoming Denise Levertov 1998
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026

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