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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
Billie John Wieners 2015
Odyssey of Big Boy Sterling A. Brown 1922
Constancy Elsa Gidlow 1923
Written After Reading King Lear Ameen Rihani 1905
Wild May Claude McKay 1922
For Daughters of Magdalen Countee Cullen 1925
From “Giornata: On Faith” Gregory Pardlo 2020
Exhibition jayy dodd 2018
Modern Love: XXXVII George Meredith 1909
The Other Woman Twyla M. Hansen 2017
Magdalene: The Woman Taken in Adultery Marie Howe 2017
Falling Patrick Phillips 2016
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
Evangelize Your Love The Cyborg Jillian Weise 2013
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
My Father's Leaving Ira Sadoff 1978
Einstein Defining Special Relativity A. Van Jordan 2007
Good Night Wilhelm Müller 2003
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976

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