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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
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Ts'ai Chi'h Ezra Pound 2017
Irony Layli Long Soldier 2016
Darling Coffee Meena Alexander 2015
By the Waters of Babylon [V. Currents] Emma Lazarus 1887
On Halloween Janet Little 1792
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
The Mystic's Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier 1882
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Personals C. D. Wright 2002
Coronach Sir Walter Scott 1875
Mnemosyne Trumbull Stickney 1902
American History Michael S. Harper 1970
Ghost Of Diana Khoi Nguyen 2018
Mira at the Market Mirabai 2026
[The rage that shatters a man into children,] César Vallejo 2026
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
Untitled Nasser Rabah 2025

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