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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.

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An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady) Geoffrey Chaucer 1602
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
America James Monroe Whitfield 1853
The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman (1487) Emily Dickinson 1890
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 1949
Stoicism for Beginners Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
Walls C. P. Cavafy 1927
The Eyes of My Regret Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
I wanted to be surprised. Jane Hirshfield 2020
Song of Myself, 21 Walt Whitman 1891
Pan with Us Robert Frost 1915
Ghazal Tracy K. Smith 2018
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Ode to My Hearing Aids Camisha L. Jones 2018
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903

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