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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
The Aeneid, Book I [Arms and the man I sing] Virgil 1907
Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1842
The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1854
When Benny Agbayani Became a Met Oliver de la Paz 2024
Bolivar Luis Lloréns Torres 1925
Stories Campbell McGrath 2024
Poet of Our Race Maggie Pogue Johnson 1910
Lenoir Jericho Brown 2023
Poem for a Suicide Matthew Zapruder 2023
Ubi Sunt Virginia Konchan 2023
When I See the Stars in the Night Sky Joy Priest 2023
I Was a Hero Once James Cagney 2022
Homage to Darío Arturo Giménez Pastor 1918
Courage Song for Scott Warren Cyrus Cassells 2022
Memorial Wreath Dudley Randall 2009
The Colored Soldiers Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Ode for Memorial Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Not They Who Soar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Patron Saints Balam Rodrigo 2021
Black Heroism is Unskilled Labor Xan Forest Phillips 2021

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