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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
Anthem for Doomed Youth Wilfred Owen 1920
Mary's Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale 1830
To You Walt Whitman 1891
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r E. E. Cummings 1923
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813
Macbeth, Act V, Scene V [She should have died hereafter] William Shakespeare 2016
Fog Carl Sandburg 1919
La Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats 1819
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)] Adrienne Rich 2016
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
Bury Me in a Free Land Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now Matthew Olzmann 2017
The Witch Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1893
In the chemo room, I wear mittens made of ice so I don’t lose my fingernails. But I took a risk today to write this down. Andrea Gibson 2023
[O were my love yon Lilac fair] Robert Burns 1793
Knoxville, Tennessee Nikki Giovanni 2016
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps Andrea Gibson 2021
Chicago Carl Sandburg 1914

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