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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
Apparition Stéphane Mallarmé 1920
Island Langston Hughes 1995
Pledge Allegiance Natalie Scenters-Zapico 2020
The Theologian’s Tale; The Legend Beautiful Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2019
Holdfast Robin Beth Schaer 2019
The Conqueror Worm Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Citizenship Javier Zamora 2018
With Music Helen Hay Whitney 1905
syntax Maureen N. McLane 2008
A Green Crab’s Shell Mark Doty 1995
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
For every bird a nest (79) Emily Dickinson 1929
A Meeting Edith Wharton 2019
Soldier: Twentieth Century Isaac Rosenberg 1922
Move Alicia Ostriker 2018
Heal the Cracks in the Bell of the World Martín Espada 2017
Poem Number Two on Bell’s Theorem, or The New Physicality of Long Distance Love June Jordan 2017
Wonder and Joy Robinson Jeffers 1916
To America James Weldon Johnson 1917
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death Lloyd Schwartz 2014

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