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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
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] William Shakespeare 1623
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Guided Meditation Victoria Kornick 2026
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing Margaret Atwood 1995
The Windhover Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
Al Aaraaf Edgar Allan Poe
These Poems June Jordan 1977
At the Touch of You Witter Bynner 2014
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
The Things that Count Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1919
Butter Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018

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