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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
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley Jupiter Hammon 1787
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 1933
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999
Memory Anne Brontë 1920
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
The Bronze Legacy Effie Lee Newsome 1922
The Woodlice Aracelis Girmay 2015
Moonrise Gerard Manley Hopkins 2015
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
Parents William Meredith 1980
The Manic Depressive’s Alphabet Anahita Monfared 2025
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
My Life Closed Twice Cameron Awkward-Rich 2023
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
Confessional Hieu Minh Nguyen 2019
Hon or We have both traveled from the other side of some hill, one side of which we may wish we could forget Anis Mojgani 2019
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now; (Sonnet 90) William Shakespeare 1904

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