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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
Songs to the Peonies Sung to the Air: “Peaceful Brightness” Li Bai 1921
Dirtbag Leigh Lucas 2023
Constancy Elsa Gidlow 1923
Envy Emelihter Kihleng 2022
Jealousy Ameen Rihani 1905
The Rivals Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
Go Give the World Otto Leland Bohanan 1919
An Old Portrait Margaret Widdemer 1915
The Rainbow Effie Waller Smith 1909
Lifted Craig Morgan Teicher 2019
Indigo Ellen Bass 2019
Marsyas Paisley Rekdal 2017
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus] William Shakespeare 2017
Othello, Act III, Scene III [O, beware, my lord, of jealousy] William Shakespeare 2016
Eruv Rebecca Okrent 2015
Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova Yusef Komunyakaa 2014
As You Never Bothered to Return My Call August Kleinzahler 2013
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600

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