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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
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Gitanjali 13 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Young Sailor Langston Hughes 1926
Cross Langston Hughes 1922
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
On Laws Kahlil Gibran 1923
The Willow-Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 2018
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
declaration Andrés Montoya 2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
The Wings of Daylight W. S. Merwin 2016
One day is there of the series Emily Dickinson 1890
The Fisherman W. B. Yeats 1916
The Vampire Bride [I am come-I am come!] Henry Thomas Liddell 1833
Grace for a Child Robert Herrick 1648
Advice to a Prophet Richard Wilbur 1961
Po' Boy Blues Langston Hughes 1994
Olympia Henri Cole 2003

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