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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
Hysterical Strength Nicole Sealey 2017
Dewdrops Myra Viola Wilds 1915
Absolute Jacqueline Woodson 2020
I Saw You Joshua Henry Jones Jr. 1921
My Mother, My Mother Luther Hughes 2020
Hyperion John Keats 1820
Ode on Melancholy John Keats 1820
The Optimist J. W. Hammond 2020
Go Give the World Otto Leland Bohanan 1919
Some Call It God Jabari Asim 2020
When Night Fills with Premature Exits Enzo Silon Surin 2020
sonnet for the long second act Evie Shockley 2020
To a Rosebud Eva A. Jessye 2020
The Sun Went Down in Beauty George Marion McClellan 2020
To a Dark Girl Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Judith and Holofernes A. H. Jerriod Avant 2020
Peacock Feather Effie Lee Newsome 1922
Summer Magic Leslie Pinckney Hill 1922
For Black Children at the End of the World—and the Beginning Roger Reeves 2020
Beauty That is Never Old James Weldon Johnson 1921

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