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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
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
This Morning Charles Simic 1994
I Was Born Again the First Time I Lost Time Watching a Woman Shira Erlichman 2026
Stanzas [How like a star you rose upon my life,] Mary Shelley 1838
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
I’m not that unrequited lover, so bitter I flee Love. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
Duplex for the Sick & Tired Kay Ulanday Barrett 2024
17 Kinds of Hungry Adrian Matejka 2024
This Too Shall Pass Kim Addonizio 2024
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
Poem Helene Johnson 1922
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
And That Mysterious Word Holy Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
This Body Renée Watson 2019
Dejection: An Ode Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1802
A Dedication Lucian B. Watkins 1903

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