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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
In the old age black was not counted fair (Sonnet 127) William Shakespeare 1904
The Self-Unseeing Thomas Hardy 2018
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
The Mystic Blue D. H. Lawrence 2017
Blue with Collapse Thomas Lux 2016
When my love swears that she is made of truth (Sonnet 138) William Shakespeare 2016
Let Everything Happen to You Natalie Eilbert 2015
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
Jenny Kiss'd Me Leigh Hunt 1838
Road Trip Kurt Brown 2010
Olney Hymns, I, [Walking with God] William Cowper 1779
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2007
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
Afton Water Robert Burns 1791
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
from “Parallax” Nancy Cunard 1925
[’Twas the new moon!] Matsuo Bashō 1899

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