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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
Whom You Love Joseph O. Legaspi 2013
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
A New Law Greg Delanty 2010
Labor Jericho Brown 2010
My Star Robert Browning 1855
Sex with a Famous Poet Denise Duhamel 1999
Watermelons Charles Simic 1974
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
Tours C. D. Wright 1982
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
i take my glasses off Lucille Clifton 2026
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour] Thomas Wyatt 1557
And the Place Was Water Nicholas Gulig 2024
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025
The Things I Love Scottie McKenzie Frasier 1920
On the Three Forms of Water Campbell McGrath 2021
The American Flag Nicolás Heredia y Mota 1892
Not Dead, but Sleeping Clara Ann Thompson 1908
less hope Danez Smith 2022

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