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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
The Rider Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
The Slave Auction Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
If You Knew Ellen Bass 2018
Lover Ada Limón 2021
Winter Colony Anne Sexton 1959
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray 1751
I Have a Rendezvous with Death Alan Seeger 1917
Yours Daniel Hoffman 2003
Little Stones at My Window Mario Benedetti 2003
The Guitar Federico García Lorca 2002
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Vita Nova Louise Glück 2026
Gitanjali 1 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Dream Song 1 John Berryman 1959
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards Kaveh Akbar 2017
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best Andrea Gibson 2021
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
The World Jennifer Chang 2017

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