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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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Maumee Ruth Sterling A. Brown 1927
Four Walls Blanche Taylor Dickinson 1927
To an Icicle Blanche Taylor Dickinson 1927
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Alpha Jen Benka 2011
Dust Waring Cuney 1927
To Lovers of Earth: Fair Warning Countee Cullen 1927
Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen 1927
Protest Countee Cullen 1927
Homing Arna Bontemps 1927
Substitution Anne Spencer 1927
black love Evie Shockley 2023
This Beautiful Planet Dorothea Lasky 2023
The Way-Side Well Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. 1927
From the Stone Age Alice Corbin Henderson 1918
Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship Camonghne Felix 2023
Who Can Govern Themselves Out of Governance? A. H. Jerriod Avant 2023
Edensong Peter Cole 2022
Materials for a Gravestone Rubbing Matthew Wimberley 2023

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