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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
The Collar George Herbert 1633
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
Underbelly Nicole Homer
Soldier: Twentieth Century Isaac Rosenberg 1922
Flores Woman Tracy K. Smith 2017
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
The Wings of Daylight W. S. Merwin 2016
January William Carlos Williams 2016
Hands Safiya Sinclair 2015
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
Po' Boy Blues Langston Hughes 1994
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
Flying Sarah Arvio 2002
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
Albondigas Richard Siken 2025
Planet Dread Safiya Sinclair 2023

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