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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
Poem for a Suicide Matthew Zapruder 2023
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
Description of Symptoms Allison Benis White 2023
Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 1927
her aint even at de funeral avery r. young 2023
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
Instructions for the End Jen Benka 2011
Praise Song Hafizah Augustus Geter 2023
The Forest Road Charlotte Mew 1914
Winter: A Dirge Robert Burns 1786
The Dream of the Anti-Ekphrasis Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2022
Gahé Dzíł / Mountain Spirits Crisosto Apache 2022
Beyond the Blue Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
Love Is Easier the Headless Way James Cagney 2022
Lake of the Isles Anni Liu 2022
Singing Funeral féi hernandez 2022
Mother Luis G. Dato 1926
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
Between Fulmination and Adoration Lois P. Jones 2022
Last Privacy Scott Hightower 2022

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