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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
Song of Myself, 7 Walt Whitman 1891
On Prayer Kahlil Gibran 1923
Lost Dog Ellen Bass 2018
The Watch Danusha Laméris 2016
Four Sonnets About Food Adrienne Su 2017
Serenade Djuna Barnes 2017
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
Cotton Candy Edward Hirsch 2010
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd Walt Whitman 1891
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
Question May Swenson 1978
The Spacious Firmament on high Joseph Addison 1712
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald Sonia Sanchez 2018
Middle Passage Robert Hayden 2017
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard Patrick Rosal 2015
Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 Robert Bridges 1920
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Death of the Hired Man Robert Frost 2018

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