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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
Ode on Periods Bernadette Mayer 1998
no one wants to be rough anymore Xan Forest Phillips 2024
I Asked Why Have You Denied Yourself Love Sierra DeMulder 2023
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
Song for Equal Suffrage Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916
Trench Duty Siegfried Sassoon 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
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
Mist Henry David Thoreau 2015
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK Bianca Stone 2015
At Night Yone Noguchi 1920
Sea Rose H.D. 1916
Alphabet Poem Edward Lear 1877
Olney Hymns, I, [Walking with God] William Cowper 1779
Hellish Night Arthur Rimbaud 1991
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
The Bistro Styx Rita Dove 1995

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