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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
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
A Little Tooth Thomas Lux 1990
The House on the Hill Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget Anis Mojgani 2019
Lost Dog Ellen Bass 2018
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Oread H.D. 1915
The Fist Derek Walcott 1986
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
To Elsie William Carlos Williams 1962
The Art of Shooting in the Dark Denice Frohman 2022
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
Stretto Paul Celan 2020
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015

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