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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
You’re the Top Ellen Bass 2024
Go Youth James Tate 1994
I ask about what falls away Jason Magabo Perez 2023
Gitanjali 96 Rabindranath Tagore
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
What Comes Carolyn Forché 2020
Moon Over Gaza Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
Yearnings For Home Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1846
Israfel Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Circe H.D. 1921
September Helen Hunt Jackson 1886
Socks Margaret Ross 2017
I Know It Will Be Quiet When You Come Joseph Auslander 2016
Nature Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
Taking My Father and Brother to The Frick Derrick Austin 2015
Unpacking a Globe Arthur Sze 2015
Cattails Nikky Finney 2011
Antique Arthur Rimbaud 2011
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
When I Heard at the Close of Day Walt Whitman 1891

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