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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
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
Song at Capri Sara Teasdale 1925
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
Go Youth James Tate 1994
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
What of Fire? Marcus Jackson 2021
Essay on Thunder Sumita Chakraborty 2020
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
The Sound of Their Names Ellen Bass 2020
In Envy of Cows Joseph Auslander 1923
pitter/patter heidi andrea restrepo rhodes 2019
Amores (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
Kid, these are train tracks, Jeffrey Bean 2018
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
Haiku [i am moving in] Sonia Sanchez 2018
Notes on the Peanut June Jordan 2017
Morning Song Sara Teasdale 1920
She Was Fed Turtle Soup Lois Red Elk 2017

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