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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
Songs for the People Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1896
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 1846
Song of Myself, 20 Walt Whitman 1891
Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie Becca Klaver 2018
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
a brief meditation on breath Yesenia Montilla 2020
The Vampyre John Stagg 1810
Easter, 1916 W. B. Yeats 1921
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Li Bai 1916
In the House with No Doors Sarah Kay 2023
I Have a Rendezvous With Life Countee Cullen 1916
The Noble Nature Ben Jonson 1640
The Star Jane Taylor 1806
My Loves Langston Hughes 1922
Peace Path Heid E. Erdrich 2016
Where Go the Boats? Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
Everyday We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera 2011
Let Evening Come Jane Kenyon 1996
All but Death can be (89) Emily Dickinson 1929
Thanksgiving Turkey George Parsons Lathrop 2017

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