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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
Untitled Jesús Castillo 2018
Petals Amy Lowell 2018
Bonfire Opera Danusha Laméris 2016
A Prophecy: To George Keats in America John Keats 2017
Brotherhood Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Time Passes Joy Ladin 2015
How to Love January Gill O’Neil 2014
Token Loss Kay Ryan 2014
Love Katy Lederer 2011
The Ecstasy Phillip Lopate 2009
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
Signs of the Times Paul Laurence Dunbar 1896
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Honey Arielle Greenberg 2005
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
Late Bird Angela Narciso Torres 2026
Fate Ralph Waldo Emerson 1900
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025

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