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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
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
a note on the body Danez Smith 2017
The Inward Morning Henry David Thoreau 2016
15¢ Futures Marilyn Nelson 2015
I Have News for You Tony Hoagland 2010
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Adlestrop Edward Thomas 1917
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
Albondigas Richard Siken 2025
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart Alessandra Narváez Varela 2021
May Day Sara Teasdale 1920
November Lucy Larcom 1881
Sonnet to Liberty Oscar Wilde 1881
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
The Coliseum Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
Oughta Be a Woman June Jordan 2017
My Friends Ali Power 2017

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