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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
Outcast Claude McKay 1922
The light of a candle Yosa Buson 2007
how to say Safia Elhillo 2017
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
Meeting at Night Robert Browning 1845
Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens 1954
The Divine Image William Blake 1789
Nine Bluegills Stuart Dybek 2026
On the Hill-Side Radclyffe Hall 1910
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
On Self-Knowledge Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Wild Honeysuckle Philip Freneau 1785
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Wallace Stevens 1954
All but Death can be (89) Emily Dickinson 1929
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War Joy Harjo 2019
Her Voice Oscar Wilde 2018
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Nothing Wants to Suffer Danusha Laméris 2021
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son] William Shakespeare 1611
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Ernest Dowson 1900

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