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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
Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now Matthew Olzmann 2017
Bluebeard Safiya Sinclair 2026
If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert Natalie Diaz 2021
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed (Sonnet 27) William Shakespeare 1904
The Harlem Dancer Claude McKay 1922
Walking Around Pablo Neruda 2016
Singularity Marie Howe 2019
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987
Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 1843
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
Election Day, November, 1884 Walt Whitman 1891
The Fly William Blake 1794
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
Fall Edward Hirsch 1986
Love Comes Quietly Robert Creeley 2016
Twenty-One Love Poems [(The Floating Poem, Unnumbered)] Adrienne Rich 2016
[O were my love yon Lilac fair] Robert Burns 1793

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