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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
Vows (for a gay wedding) Joseph O. Legaspi 2018
little prayer Danez Smith 2017
The Awakening James Weldon Johnson 2016
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1858
On Good and Evil Kahlil Gibran 1923
Infant Joy William Blake 1789
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump David Bottoms 1995
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal William Wordsworth 1800
Gitanjali 97 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Here Arthur Sze 1998
Christmas at Sea Robert Louis Stevenson 1888
A Song on the End of the World Czesław Miłosz 1944
Dream Song 4 John Berryman 1959
From “Nox” [Herodotos tells us ...] Anne Carson 2010
Anything Can Happen Seamus Heaney 2006
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
November Night Adelaide Crapsey 1915
Fable Ralph Waldo Emerson 1899
Spanglish As Experienced by a Native Speaker John Olivares Espinoza 2017
Dorothy Wordsworth Jennifer Chang 2016

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