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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
Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog Kaveh Akbar 2025
For a Birthday Sophie Jewett 1910
To The People Who Have Resisted the Urge to Push an Asian Person Into the Path of a Moving Train Bao Phi 2024
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Why I Needed To Richard Blanco 2023
Deathscape Lullaby Cynthia Cruz 2022
109 Bermuda Kenzie Allen 2022
A Black Man Talks of Reaping Arna Bontemps 1922
A Drowsy Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Keep A-Pluggin' Away Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
This Island on Which I Love You Brandy Nālani McDougall 2020
It would be water Kathy Engel 2021
Shadows Langston Hughes 1923
The Owl Edward Thomas
Together Carrie Williams Clifford 1922
Nothing Krysten Hill 2020
Southern Mansion Arna Bontemps 1922
If You Should Go Countee Cullen 1922
Do Not Cheer, Men are Dying Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Prayer for My Immigrant Relatives Lory Bedikian 2018

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