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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 sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell] John Keats 1817
Autumn Alexander Posey 1910
The Tempest, Act III, Scene II [Be not afeard] William Shakespeare 1622
The Owner of the Night Mark Doty 2017
Paul Robeson Gwendolyn Brooks 1970
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024
Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg 1916
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll 1872
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be John Keats 1848
From “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Edward Fitzgerald 1859
Song [When I am dead, my dearest] Christina Rossetti 1862
Kissing in Vietnamese Ocean Vuong 2016
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
The Pumpkin John Greenleaf Whittier 1850
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 1847

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