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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 Shark Lord Alfred Douglas 1897
Sonnet V Mahmoud Darwish 2007
On Gifts for Grace Bernadette Mayer 2005
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
Stanzas in Meditation Gertrude Stein 1994
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
Veterans Day Assembly Dujie Tahat 2020
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
[Say what you will, and scratch my heart to find] Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Gitanjali 2 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
When It Comes Down To It Ada Limón 2022
Plácido’s Farewell to His Mother Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés 1922
On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran 1923
Cardiology Rafael Campo 2018
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Be patient till the last] William Shakespeare 2017
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi Nathan McClain 2017
By the Stream Paul Laurence Dunbar 1900
Toward the Winter Solstice Timothy Steele 2006

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