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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 my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Chambered Nautilus Oliver Wendell Holmes 1858
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
A Friendship Sophie Jewett 1910
Time-Sensitive Franny Choi 2023
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
The Jester Langston Hughes 1926
Will You? Carrie Fountain 2019
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Sonnet V Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2017
Senior Discount Ali Liebegott 2016
Autumn, New York, 1999 Patricia Spears Jones 2016
Tanka Sadakichi Hartmann 1916
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
Sonnet V Mahmoud Darwish 2007
In View of the Fact A. R. Ammons 2005
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
The Collar George Herbert 1633

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