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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
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
Fall Edward Hirsch 1986
The Pomegranate Eavan Boland 1994
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You Natalie Diaz 2019
Kingfisher Hai-Dang Phan 2026
The Fall of Rome W. H. Auden 1940
Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r E. E. Cummings 1923
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
Song of Myself, 1 [I celebrate myself] Walt Whitman 1891
anyone lived in a pretty how town E. E. Cummings 1976
Goblin Market Christina Rossetti 1862
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
Knoxville, Tennessee Nikki Giovanni 2016
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
Things We Carry on the Sea Wang Ping 2018
Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII [If it were done when 'tis done] William Shakespeare 2016
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
Epitaph on a Tyrant W. H. Auden 1940

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