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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
Magdalen Walks Oscar Wilde 1881
Love Katy Lederer 2011
The House Richard Wilbur 2010
Old Photographs Gabeba Baderoon 2010
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1797
The Triumph of Time Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
The Metier of Blossoming Denise Levertov 1998
God Went to Beauty School Cynthia Rylant 2003
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day Cynthia Zarin 2002
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Break of Day John Donne 1612
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
Dog Around the Block E. B. White 1930
I Talk Black Lady Brion 2018
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
Queer Trivia Night Jenny Johnson 2026
Night Bird Danusha Laméris 2024
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025

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