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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 Weary Blues Langston Hughes 1926
I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman 1891
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
Love Song Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
The Song of the Jellicles T. S. Eliot 1939
Gitanjali 1 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson 2015
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear 1871
The Guitar Federico García Lorca 2002
The Shoes My Mother Hated, in Fairness, Were Ugly Ariana Brown 2026
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music John Dryden 1697
One Boy Told Me Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
Sun Song Langston Hughes 1927
Courage Lee Herrick 2026
Gitanjali 45 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Host of the Air W. B. Yeats 1893
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You Natalie Diaz 2019

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