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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
The Negro’s “America” Frank Barbour Coffin 2025
HOLYHEADHARRIET Ashley M. Jones 2025
First South Melissa Range 2024
Southern Cross, Thirty Feet High Junious Ward 2021
Lincoln John Gould Fletcher 1917
Memorial Wreath Dudley Randall 2009
Battlegrounds Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo 2020
Emancipation Priscilla Jane Thompson 1907
Civil War Rosemarie Dombrowski 2017
To One of the Brave Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The Bay Fight Henry Howard Brownell 1866
The Battle Summers Henry Howard Brownell
Home, Sweet Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
VI—The Stare’s Nest By My Window W. B. Yeats 1924
Another Strange Land: Downpour off Cape Hatteras (March, 1864) Aaron Coleman 2020
Parricide Julia Ward Howe 1899
A Far Country Leslie Pinckney Hill 1921
Personal History Adrienne Su 2019
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
A Meditation Herman Melville 1891

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