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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 courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 1954
Now What Solmaz Sharif 2019
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
A Song for Merry Harvest Eliza Cook 2017
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker 2016
What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver Geffrey Davis 2016
Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 Robert Bridges 1920
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
Epithalamion Edmund Spenser 1595
A Farewell to America Phillis Wheatley 1773
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
waiting on you to die so i can be myself Danez Smith 2017
For the Bird Singing Before Dawn Kim Stafford 2022
Pledge Allegiance Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2020
My City James Weldon Johnson 1922
The Show Wilfred Owen 1921
Nature Aria Yi Lei 2018
Untitled Jesús Castillo 2018

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