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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 Crescent Moon Amy Lowell 2018
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
My First Memory (of Librarians) Nikki Giovanni 2007
Let Me Try Again Javier Zamora 2017
Having It out with Melancholy Jane Kenyon 1993
Dorothy Wordsworth Jennifer Chang 2016
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
Good Hours Robert Frost 2017
England in 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1839
Classic Water David Berman 2013
This Is Not a Small Voice Sonia Sanchez 2018
I Was Told the Sunlight Was a Cure Hanif Abdurraqib 2022
The Great Lover Rupert Brooke 1915
Let Love, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Youth and Age Kahlil Gibran 1926
In Memory of Sigmund Freud W. H. Auden 1940
Spider Andrea Gibson 2026
Reading to My Father Jorie Graham 2016
The Lost Breath of Trees Colleen J. McElroy 2024

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