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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 Wild Honeysuckle Philip Freneau 1785
Three Haiku Matsuo Bashō 2026
Return to Sea Langston Hughes 1927
From “Grandmother’s Garden” Meena Alexander 2020
Untitled [Do you still remember: falling stars] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
Ode to the Confederate Dead Allen Tate 1937
Christmas Eve Christina Rossetti 2018
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 2016
Tell Me a Story Robert Penn Warren 1985
Thursday William Carlos Williams 1921
El Dorado Edgar Allan Poe 1849
What is Home? Mosab Abu Toha 2022
The light of a candle Yosa Buson 2007
Song of Myself, 33 Walt Whitman 1891
In the City Chen Chen 2017
Independence Day Ocean Vuong 2026
A Litany in Time of Plague Thomas Nashe 1600
Grace Joy Harjo 1990
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884

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