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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 Spacious Firmament on high Joseph Addison 1712
Here’s a Little Mouse E. E. Cummings 1928
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
Batter My Heart, Transgender’d God Meg Day 2017
Grief Work Natalie Diaz 2015
the lost baby poem Lucille Clifton 1991
In drear nighted December John Keats 1817
Haunted Seas Cale Young Rice 1921
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
My Dead Friends Marie Howe 2022
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
On Pleasure Kahlil Gibran 1923
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017
Detail of the Woods Richard Siken 2011
Tamales on Christmas Christian Robinson 2022
It Was the Animals Natalie Diaz 2020
On Prayer Kahlil Gibran 1923
What Seems Like Joy Kaveh Akbar 2017

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