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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
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick 1648
Dreams Langston Hughes 1994
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost 1916
Life is Fine Langston Hughes 1994
As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII [All the world's a stage] William Shakespeare 1623
Archaic Torso of Apollo Rainer Maria Rilke 1995
O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman 1891
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?] William Shakespeare 1623
If— Rudyard Kipling 1910
Quatrains Lewis Grandison Alexander 1927
Thalia Chasing Grapefruit Charlotte Pence 2015
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
I Dare You Dorianne Laux 2023
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
At Sixty-Five Henri Cole 2022
The Nightingale to the Workman Morris Rosenfeld 1914
At The Corner of New Orleans and Frontier - At Disneyland Matt Mason 2022
Youth Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Memphis Blues Sterling A. Brown 1922
[Know thou well this world its state...] Khushal Khan Khattak 1890

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