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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
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 Martín Espada 2003
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
The Woodspurge Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1856
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
[In my eyes he matches the gods] Sappho 2007
At Deep Midnight Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
The Iliad, Book IX [The Embassy] Homer 2023
[When we walked along the garden path] Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya 1991
The Dance of the Lambs and the Birds Ameen Animashaun 2025
The Meaning of Trees Shivanee Ramlochan 2025
You Can Light a Fire Without a Match, You Can Catch a Fish Without a Hook, You Can Make a Blind Man See Jari Bradley 2025
From “Migrations” Gloria Gervitz 2025
When I’m on the Bed Martha Silano 2025
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Love Poem with Staples Laura Read 2025
Mantle Kevin Young 2025
Acceptance Kerry Hardie 2025
Holiday cheer or holiday void— Haleh Liza Gafori 2024

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