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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
The Mask Clarissa Scott Delany 1927
Answer July Emily Dickinson 1862
It Bruises, Too Kwame Dawes 2022
Crossing the Line E. Ethelbert Miller 2022
One Summer Ann-Margaret Lim 2021
The Waiting Jane Wong 2021
When Love Alicia Ostriker 2021
Becoming a Ghost Tanaya Winder 2020
Everything is Different Paul Celan 2020
Nocturne Gwendolyn Bennett 1922
Self James Oppenheim 1916
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter John Crowe Ransom 1923
Personal History Adrienne Su 2019
A Sonnet on Cervantes Rubén Darío 1916
etymology Airea D. Matthews 2019
Nearly Idra Novey 2019
Song of Myself, 17 Walt Whitman 1891
A Grain of Sand Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
Publicity Ada Limón 2018
Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not (Sonnet 149) William Shakespeare 1904

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