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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
Possum Crossing Nikki Giovanni 2003
The Earthlings Matthew Olzmann 2023
Footprint on Your Heart Gary Lenhart 2010
Answer to a Child's Question Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817
Justice Langston Hughes 1923
Zombie Hadara Bar-Nadav 2018
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
Dead Leaves Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
Song of Myself, V Walt Whitman 1891
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III [excerpt] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
Invitation to the Voyage Charles Baudelaire 2006
Heartbeats Melvin Dixon 2017
Five Directions to My House Juan Felipe Herrera 2008
All Souls' Night, 1917 Hortense King Flexner 1920
Dock Rats Marianne Moore 1921
Revolutionary Letter #1 Diane di Prima 1971
Fog Robert Hillyer 1921
You Meet Someone and Later You Meet Their Dancing and You Have to Start Again David Welch 2018
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore (Sonnet 60) William Shakespeare 2016

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