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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
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
XXXVI (The Sonnets) Ted Berrigan 2005
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
The Old Swimmin' Hole James Whitcomb Riley 1883
At the Spring Dawn Angelina Weld Grimké 1923
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926
Winter Moon Langston Hughes 1923
Rain Music Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. 1922
Morning Paul Laurence Dunbar 1905
The Virus Jericho Brown 2019
NDN Homopoetics Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904
The Unconquered Dead John McCrae 2018
The Past Is the Present Marianne Moore 1917
She Didn’t Even Wave Ai 2018
Potato Jane Kenyon 2017
The Swan F. S. Flint 2017

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