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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
The Kiss Stephen Dunn 2007
On the Circuit W. H. Auden 1965
Dreams Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
Daily Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
[The child who speaks despite the rule] Dan Sociu 2026
Poem in Which I Only Use Vowels Paola Capó-García 2018
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love June Jordan 2017
Night Waitress Lynda Hull 2017
Song of Myself, 4 Walt Whitman 1891
Ode of Girls’ Things Sharon Olds 2015
My Grandmother’s Love Letters Hart Crane 1920
Rain Claribel Alegría 2003
For every bird a nest (79) Emily Dickinson 1929
Kink Imani Davis 2023
The Fruits of Death Ameen Rihani 1905
Apparition Stéphane Mallarmé 1920
Revolutionary Letter #3 Diane di Prima 1971
Defeat Kahlil Gibran 1918
The Comfort of Darkness Galway Kinnell 2018

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