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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
All the Tired Horses in the Sun Joy Harjo 2018
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
Battery Anne Waldman 2016
A Kite for Aibhin Seamus Heaney 2010
Sonnet V Mahmoud Darwish 2007
For the Fallen Laurence Binyon 1914
Addiction Major Jackson 2025
The Return Arna Bontemps 1927
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
Love the Light-Giver Michelangelo Buonarroti 1897
OBIT [The Blue Dress] Victoria Chang 2018
Four Sonnets About Food Adrienne Su 2017
Happenstance Rita Dove 2016
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Burning the Old Year Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Luck is not chance (1350) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
A Political Litany Philip Freneau 1775
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006

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