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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
Rock Me to Sleep Elizabeth Akers Allen 1859
The Unquiet Grave Anonymous 1400
Silence Edgar Allan Poe 1840
Spontaneous Me Walt Whitman 1891
R.I.P., My Love Tory Dent 1999
They Flee from Me Thomas Wyatt 1557
miss rosie Lucille Clifton 1987
Furry Bear A. A. Milne 1927
Homesick Blues Langston Hughes 1927
Oblivion Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Heat H.D. 1982
Miscarriage Christine Stewart-Nuñez 2024
A Witch’s Chant James Hogg 2021
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
Revery Fenton Johnson 1915
Edgar Allan Poe Timothy Thomas Fortune 1905
Stars Robert Frost 2018
Poem about My Rights June Jordan 2017
The Sky Over My Mother’s House Jaime Manrique 2016
I Have this Way of Being Jamaal May 2016

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