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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
say it with your whole black mouth Danez Smith 2018
I know crips live here Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Barberism Terrance Hayes 2017
Cinderella J. R. Solonche 2017
Fan-Piece for Her Imperial Lord Ezra Pound 2017
Faithful Forest Alberto Ríos 2016
Swimming Carl Phillips 2015
Brotherhood Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
A January Dandelion George Marion McClellan 1916
Ashes of Life Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Curtains Ruth Stone 1987
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
Autumn Grasses Margaret Gibson 2003
Tours C. D. Wright 1982
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
[The long love that in my thought doth harbour] Thomas Wyatt 1557
Low Tide on Grand Pré Bliss Carman 2026

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