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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 Forest Reverie Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Autumn Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 2017
My 24 Hour Version Lois Red Elk 2017
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
Imaginary Conversation Linda Pastan 2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
The Evening Star Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2015
Kudzu Saeed Jones 2015
Meeting and Passing Robert Frost 2013
The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady) Geoffrey Chaucer 1602
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart Alessandra Narváez Varela 2021
Counting, this New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me Jane Hirshfield 2021
[When I come home they rush to me, the flies] Aracelis Girmay 2020
Haunted Siegfried Sassoon 1917
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904

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