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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
October Joseph Fasano 2013
The Grey Thread Elsa Gidlow 1923
It Is No Dream Of Mine Henry David Thoreau 1943
Songs to the Dark Virgin Langston Hughes 1926
Why I Write Poetry Leah Kindler 2022
The Song of the Smoke W. E. B. Du Bois 1914
Acedia Sestina Rohan Chhetri 2022
To Winter Claude McKay 1922
Taking Your Olympic Measure Alberto Ríos 2021
Rainy Day Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1988
Hiatus Ely Shipley 2020
Hope. Alice Dunbar-Nelson 2020
Want Could Kill Me Xan Forest Phillips 2019
From the Dark Tower Countee Cullen 1922
When I Am Asked Lisel Mueller 1996
An Old Portrait Margaret Widdemer 1915
The Protected Sex Alice Duer Miller 1915
Pontoosuce Herman Melville 2019
My Prayer Henry David Thoreau 1895
brief lesson on marriage G. C. Waldrep 2019

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