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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
A Bookshelf Hua Xi 2025
In a Village in the West Bank Naomi Shihab Nye 2025
To One Who Might Have Been My Friend Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad Wallace Stevens 1921
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
At Sixty-Five Henri Cole 2022
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
Symptom Recital Dorothy Parker 1926
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1926
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
The Teacher Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
The Grave of Keats Oscar Wilde 2018
Dear Mama (4) Wanda Coleman 2017
The Affliction Marie Howe 2017
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
América Richard Blanco 1998

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