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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
What Governments Say to Women Alice Duer Miller 1915
The World-Soul Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The mother finds her own wild, lost beginnings deep within the body of her daughter Mary Jean Chan 2019
Where Is the Poet Yone Noguchi 1921
Song of Myself, 22 Walt Whitman 1891
How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st (Sonnet 128) William Shakespeare 1904
But be contented: when that fell arrest (Sonnet 74) William Shakespeare 1904
Against my love shall be, as I am now (Sonnet 63) William Shakespeare 1904
Blues on Yellow Marilyn Chin 2018
How We Could Have Lived or Died This Way Martín Espada 2018
say it with your whole black mouth Danez Smith 2018
Wade in the Water Tracy K. Smith 2018
From “Surge” Etel Adnan 2017
Father’s Memory of a Mexican Mining Camp Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
The Swan F. S. Flint 2017
Christmas at the Orphanage Bill Knott 2017
Lunch Break Francisco Aragón 2016
what the dead know by heart Donte Collins 2016
Macbeth, Act II, Scene III [Here's a knocking indeed] William Shakespeare 2016
Swallows Leonora Speyer 1921

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