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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.

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Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The New Negro James Edward McCall 1927
Canopy Arlene Keizer 2023
Winter: A Dirge Robert Burns 1786
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1839
Evening Olivia Ward Bush-Banks 1914
The Hurricane José María Heredia 1918
On Reading Allen Ginsberg’s “Homework” Andrea Carter Brown 2022
[The Image, as in a Hexagram:] Lew Welch 2012
Netherland Julia B. Levine 2014
Grey Skies Elsa Gidlow 1923
Caught Sight Claire Meuschke 2022
The Pirate Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Laughter in the Slums Dudley Randall 2009
Apostrophe Liza Katz Duncan 2022
Good Grief KB Brookins 2022
It was All for Him Ameen Rihani 1905
Saada Ameen Rihani 1905
His Steady Sails He Never Furls Henry David Thoreau 1943
From “The Land” [That was a spring of storms.] Vita Sackville-West 1926

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