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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.

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Summer Grass Carl Sandburg 1928
Where Is My Friend? Dorianne Laux 2026
Self-Portrait as Combination Taco Bell / Pizza Hut / KFC Aaron Tyler Hand 2024
Autumnal Rubén Darío 1916
Gitanjali 103 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
A Suggested Campaign Song Alice Duer Miller 1915
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
Song of the Open Road, 5 Walt Whitman 1891
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
Impression Du Matin Oscar Wilde 2018
Ghazal Tracy K. Smith 2018
The Inward Morning Henry David Thoreau 2016
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
The Trouble Ball [excerpt] Martín Espada 2011
The Vampire Bride [I am come-I am come!] Henry Thomas Liddell 1833
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
The Aeneid, Book IV [So, you traitor] Virgil 2006
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862

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