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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 Mosquito Knows D. H. Lawrence 1923
The Following Dogs Billy Collins 2025
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1921
Tomato Pies, 25 Cents Grace Cavalieri 2019
The Lotos-Eaters Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1832
For My Mother May Sarton 2016
poem to my uterus Lucille Clifton 1991
The Woman and the Flame Aimé Césaire 2011
Rain Don Paterson 2009
The War After the War Debora Greger 2010
The Flight of the Crows Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Beverly Hills, Chicago Gwendolyn Brooks 2017
The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos 2015
Gerontion T. S. Eliot 1920
Autumn Movement Carl Sandburg 1918
February Tamiko Beyer 2022
[An ancient pond!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Crossing Jericho Brown 2019
What the Thrush Said John Keats 2015

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