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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 Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
The First Person Who Will Live to Be One Hundred and Fifty Years Old Has Already Been Born Nicole Sealey 2017
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6) William Shakespeare 2016
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
It Couldn't Be Done Edgar Guest 1919
Life Charlotte Brontë 2016
Poem without Angel Food C. D. Wright 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
From “Late Summer” Deborah Landau 2016
Mask Carl Sandburg 1916
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Dear David Matthew Burgess 2015
Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming Thomas Lux 2015
Mist Everywhere Nate Pritts 2014
Weave in, My Hardy Life Walt Whitman 2014
Room Tone Bill Berkson 2014
American Boys, Hello! Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2014
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006

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