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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
Gone with the Swallows Ameen Rihani 1905
Once the World Was Perfect Joy Harjo 2018
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
The African Picnic Elizabeth Alexander 2017
Abandoned Joseph Auslander 2016
The Destruction Of Sennacherib Lord George Gordon Byron 1815
A Drinking Song W. B. Yeats 1916
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026
Silence Comes from Somewhere Else Nikola Madzirov 2026
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier 1894
Thinking of Frost Major Jackson 2019
How heavy do I journey on the way (Sonnet 50) William Shakespeare 1904
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Love Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1826
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion] Petrarch 2004
Elevator Boy Langston Hughes 1926
What the Silence Said Marie Howe 2021

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