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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
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905
Forever Margaret Ross 2026
Love James Russell Lowell 2016
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Never May the Fruit Be Picked Edna St. Vincent Millay 1923
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
& even the black guy’s profile reads ‘sorry, no black guys’ Danez Smith 2017
1 Corinthians 13:4–7 2016
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
A Book of Music Jack Spicer 1958
Be Less Poetic Tariq Al-Arabi 2026
A Portrait in Greys William Carlos Williams 1917
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
The Choice Dorothy Parker 1926
In the Beginning Donika Kelly 2021
The Weight of Love Pat Schneider 2019

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