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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 Fool’s Song William Carlos Williams 2017
From “Poem in the Shape of a Rose” Pier Paolo Pasolini 2016
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
playing with fire Evie Shockley 2011
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
The Prose Poem Campbell McGrath 2003
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
Incurable Dorothy Parker 1928
[A rose has thorns as well as honey,] Christina Rossetti 1872
Sheep in Winter John Clare 1835
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
August Moonrise Sara Teasdale 1921
Love is a Flame George Marion McClellan 1916

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