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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
Moonlily Marilyn Nelson 2017
A Small Needful Fact Ross Gay 2016
So Much Happiness Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
The Power of the Dog Rudyard Kipling 1922
Kindness Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Everyday We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera 2011
Hamlet, Act III, Scene I [To be, or not to be] William Shakespeare 1603
Invictus William Ernest Henley 1888
O Me! O Life! Walt Whitman 1891
Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene III [O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?] William Shakespeare 1623
Leaves Lloyd Schwartz 1992
The Swing Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost 1923
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1915
I Hear an Army James Joyce 1914
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face Jack Prelutsky 1984
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Eugene Field 1889
Bleezer’s Ice Cream Jack Prelutsky 1984
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999
Still I Rise Maya Angelou 1978

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