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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
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies June Jordan 2017
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now Matthew Olzmann 2017
Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
Instructions for Having a Soul Joseph Fasano
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You Natalie Diaz 2019
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27) William Shakespeare 1904
Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson 1897
Como Tú / Like You / Like Me Richard Blanco 2019
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
Bright Star John Keats 1838
Even the Rain Agha Shahid Ali 2003
Singularity Marie Howe 2019
October Helen Hunt Jackson 2015
[This is my letter to the World] Emily Dickinson 2026
If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert Natalie Diaz 2021
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) William Shakespeare 1609
Love Comes Quietly Robert Creeley 2016
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848

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