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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
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Tomorrow Is a Place Sanna Wani 2021
Inscription Herman Melville 1864
Song of the Open Road, 5 Walt Whitman 1891
Jakarta, January Sarah Kay 2019
[My Spirit Will Not Haunt the Mound] Thomas Hardy 2018
The School of Night & Hyphens Chen Chen 2017
Modern Love John Keats 2016
Medusa Louise Bogan 1921
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
The Thread of Life Christina Rossetti 1881
Starlight William Meredith 1997
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
The Specific Ocean Jenny Browne 2026
Whatever the ways of the world, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Drill Jada Renée Allen 2024
A Mona Lisa Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
Lion Tina Chang 2022

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