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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
At Pegasus Terrance Hayes 1999
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
Drought Season W. J. Herbert 2026
The Lonely Street William Carlos Williams 1921
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
“Stop. Go put your shoes back on. They’ll know we Okies,” a Lost Image Reclamation Anthony Cody 2022
Disappointed Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
From “Will There Be Singing” Juliana Spahr 2020
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some glory in their birth, some in their skill (Sonnet 91) William Shakespeare 1904
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
Election Year Richard Blanco 2016
The Church of Michael Jordan Jeffrey McDaniel 2016
To Winter William Blake
From “The Princess” Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2014
Brokeheart: Just like that Patrick Rosal 2014
The Good Moolly Cow [excerpt] Eliza Lee Follen 1832
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609

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