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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
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
The Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
a note on the body Danez Smith 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
That This Susan Howe 2011
Gunga Din Rudyard Kipling 1892
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Oxen Thomas Hardy 1915
The Book of Questions, III Pablo Neruda 2001
People and a Heron Robinson Jeffers 1925
Devotion Tracy K. Smith 2026
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
Ode to My Hair Aria Aber 2019
Christmas Morn Anna de Brémont 2018
The Clans Richard Calmit Adams 2017

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