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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 Definition of Love Andrew Marvell 1681
Three Haiku Matsuo Bashō 2026
Ballad of Birmingham Dudley Randall 2009
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
I Sing the Body Electric Walt Whitman 1891
A Litany in Time of Plague Thomas Nashe 1600
The Battle Hymn of Amergin Amergin Glúingel 2026
Strong Men Sterling A. Brown 1922
Ode to the Head Nod Elizabeth Acevedo 2020
An October Garden Christina Rossetti 2018
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017
Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith 1972
Justice Langston Hughes 1923
Match Jason Reynolds 2020
Give Your Daughters Difficult Names Assétou Xango 2017
Nani Alberto Ríos 2019
Ultrasound Kaveh Akbar 2019
The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings. Donika Kelly 2017
Nine Spice Mix Zeina Azzam 2022
little prayer Danez Smith 2017

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