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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.

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On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [I stood in Venice] Lord George Gordon Byron 1818
The Concrete River Luis J. Rodríguez 1990
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Siri as Mother Hala Alyan 2024
To the Dandelion James Russell Lowell 1843
Magnitude and Bond Nicole Terez Dutton 2019
After He’s Decided to Leave Elizabeth Acevedo 2019
Lost Dog Ellen Bass 2018
The Hour and the Ghost Christina Rossetti 2018
It Is Important To Be Something Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2018
Letter to the Northern Lights Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2016
Tender Buttons [A Long Dress] Gertrude Stein 1914
Christabel [excerpt] Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
A Hand Jane Hirshfield 2001
The Distant Moon Rafael Campo 1994

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