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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.

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Work Without Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1825
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
wishes for sons Lucille Clifton 1991
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
The Tropics of New York Claude McKay 1920
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
Sissy Aaron Smith 2023
Mildew Charlotte Dacre 2021
Wonder Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2020
On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran 1923
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
November Helen Hunt Jackson 1891
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Brahma Ralph Waldo Emerson 1857
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
The Weight of Love Pat Schneider 2019
After the Winter Claude McKay 1922

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