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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
To a Locomotive in Winter Walt Whitman 1891
The Adoration William Rose Benét 1919
“I Shall Come Back” Dorothy Parker 1926
Stray Elizabeth Alexander 2018
Spirits of the Dead Edgar Allan Poe 1829
Regret Denise Low 2025
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022
Match Jason Reynolds 2020
Nomenclatures of Invisibility Mahtem Shiferraw 2017
Notes from a Field Hospital Suji Kwock Kim 2026
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) Craig Santos Perez 2017
Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Jack Prelutsky 1990
My Hole. My Whole. Sam Sax 2024
My Butterfly Robert Frost 2017
Lycidas John Milton 1638
I Shall Return Claude McKay 1922
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Walt Whitman 1855
Out, Out– Robert Frost 1916
I shall forget you presently, my dear (Sonnet IV) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1920
To the Film Industry in Crisis Frank O’Hara 1957

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