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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.

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[It was summer when I found you] Sappho 1907
Laughers Langston Hughes 1922
Shaking Hands Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
The Rookie January Gill O’Neil 2016
Arabic Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Kiss Stephen Dunn 2007
The Sound of One Immigrant Clapping Adrian Castro 2005
Sonnet 6 Rainer Maria Rilke 2004
The Leaving Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
The Dramatists Dorothy Parker 1926
Sport Langston Hughes 1927
An Invite to Eternity John Clare 1893
Joy Clarissa Scott Delany 1926
The Last Word of a Bluebird Robert Frost 2018
Citizenship Javier Zamora 2018
Applesauce Ted Kooser 2017
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Fast Jorie Graham 2016
Before I Was a Gazan Naomi Shihab Nye 2014

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