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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
Year That Trembled and Reel’d Beneath Me Walt Whitman
Aunt Chloe's Politics Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1891
Poem Begun on the Day of My Father's funeral and Completed on the first Day of the New Year Dean Rader 2019
I used to be a roller coaster girl jessica Care moore 2019
Amores (VI) E. E. Cummings 1923
As a decrepit father takes delight (Sonnet 37) William Shakespeare 1904
Vow of Extinction Mary Ruefle 2018
My Father as Cartographer Natasha Trethewey 2018
Single Lines Looking Forward. or One Monostich Past 45 francine j. harris 2018
Given to Rust Vievee Francis 2017
From WHEREAS [“WHEREAS when offered ...”] Layli Long Soldier 2017
Peace Path Heid E. Erdrich 2016
Pomegranate Means Grenade Jamaal May 2016
Aubade to Langston Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2016
Still Life with Antidepressants Aaron Smith 2015
Imagery Archibald MacLeish 2015
On Virtue Phillis Wheatley 1773
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
Winter: My Secret Christina Rossetti 1862

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