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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
Zalka Peetruza Raymond Garfield Dandridge 1922
To a Young Dancing Girl Elsa Gidlow 1923
Happiest on Earth Alexandria Peary 2019
Dorothy Dances Louis Untermeyer 1923
Lei Kukui, Lei Kuahu Mahealani Perez-Wendt 2022
A Chant of Mystics Ameen Rihani 1921
Nude Young Dancer Langston Hughes 1926
Harlem Night Club Langston Hughes 1926
To Midnight Nan at Leroy's Langston Hughes 1926
Negro Dancers Langston Hughes 1926
Confessional to Famous Iranian Pop Singer Dariush Darius Atefat-Peckham 2021
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Cabaret Langston Hughes 1926
Song for a Banjo Dance Langston Hughes 1926
She of the Dancing Feet Sings Countee Cullen 1925
And That Fast, You’re Thinking About Their Bodies Threa Almontaser 2020
Minstrel Man Langston Hughes 1925
La suavecita Lupe Mendez 2021
The blue nightgown Toi Derricotte 2021

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