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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
Protest Countee Cullen 1927
When Dawn Comes to the City Claude McKay 1922
Golgotha Is a Mountain Arna Bontemps 1927
Homing Arna Bontemps 1927
Close Your Eyes! Arna Bontemps 1927
The Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
A Tree Design Arna Bontemps 1927
The Resurrection Jonathan Henderson Brooks 1927
Gethsemane Arna Bontemps 1927
Lancelot Arna Bontemps 1927
Substitution Anne Spencer 1927
Rye Bread William Stanley Braithwaite 1927
From the German of Uhland Ludwig Uhland 1927
The Way-Side Well Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 1927
The Tragedy of Pete Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 1927
X Rays Max Eastman 1918
From the Stone Age Alice Corbin Henderson 1918
I Have a Friend Anne Spencer 1927
Neighbors Anne Spencer 1927
Dusk Angelina Weld Grimké 1927

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