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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
Pattern Dorothy Parker 1926
Religion Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Conscience and Remorse Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Unexpressed Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
What Comes Carolyn Forché 2020
A Prayer Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Acedia Sestina Rohan Chhetri 2022
Minna (IX) Maxwell Bodenheim 1918
What the Silence Said Marie Howe 2021
The Daughter Cynthia Hogue 2019
Nachtraglichtkeit Brenda Shaughnessy 2012
Sonnet XLIV Charlotte Smith 2021
Gradually Then Suddenly Philip Schaefer 2021
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1922
Caprice Countee Cullen 1925
Cabaret Langston Hughes 1926
For Paul Laurence Dunbar Countee Cullen 1925
Monotony Langston Hughes 1923
For a Fatalist Countee Cullen 1925
Summit And Vale Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1902

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