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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 Day-Breakers Arna Bontemps 1927
Aunt Sue’s Stories Langston Hughes 1926
Together Carrie Williams Clifford 1922
Invocation Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 1860
Turtle Soup Marilyn Chin 1994
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
My/My/My Charles Bernstein 1975
Father Edgar Guest 1919
To His Mistress Going to Bed John Donne 1654
Latin & Soul Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
The Transparent Man Anthony Hecht 1991
Olympia Henri Cole 2003
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
The World George Herbert 1633
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915
Veterans Day Assembly Dujie Tahat 2020

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