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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
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
Ballad Sonia Sanchez 2007
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
In the Forest Oscar Wilde 1909
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
A Litany Of Atlanta W. E. B. Du Bois 1922
The American Soldier Philip Freneau 1790
A Christmas Carol Christina Rossetti 2018
Hymn to Time Ursula K. Le Guin 2018
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
Hermes of the Ways H.D. 2016
The Tree Sparrows Joseph O. Legaspi 2016
juxtaposing the black boy & the bullet Danez Smith 2016
Call of the Night Djuna Barnes 2016
Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000

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