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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
Poem Beginning with a Line from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Maggie Smith 2018
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale] William Shakespeare 1596
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Adrienne Rich 2011
[I’m happiest now when most away] Emily Brontë 1908
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
On Crime and Punishment Kahlil Gibran 1923
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60) William Shakespeare 2016
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
The Widow's Lament in Springtime William Carlos Williams 1922
Carmel Point Robinson Jeffers 1995
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
Love Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Ode on the death of a favorite cat Thomas Gray 1748
I Have this Way of Being Jamaal May 2016
There are no kings in America Aileen Cassinetto 2020
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
The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos 2015
Eulogy Kevin Young 2011
Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916
The City Limits A. R. Ammons 1986

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