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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
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
Meeting at Night Robert Browning 1845
Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens 1954
Return to Sea Langston Hughes 1927
On the Hill-Side Radclyffe Hall 1910
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904
On Self-Knowledge Kahlil Gibran 1923
I Walk Into Every Room and Yell Where the Mexicans At José Olivarez 2017
The Tempest, Act IV, Scene I [You do look, my son] William Shakespeare 1611
You Know Me Valeria Ruiz 2024
Nothing Wants to Suffer Danusha Laméris 2021
The Haunted Palace Edgar Allan Poe 1839
Songs for the People Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1896
One Train May Hide Another Kenneth Koch 1994
The Seedling Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Conundrum of the Workshops Rudyard Kipling 1890
I Hear an Army James Joyce 1914
Short-Order Cook Jim Daniels 1985
Booker T. And W.E.B. Dudley Randall 2009

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