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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 Sixty-Five Henri Cole 2022
The Shadow on the Stone Thomas Hardy 1917
A Song of Thanks Edward Smyth Jones 1922
Poppy Song Elsa Gidlow 1923
A Death Song Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Ballade at Thirty-five Dorothy Parker 1926
A Raft of Grief Chelsea Rathburn 2013
One Year Later Lucille Clifton 1996
To A Brown Boy Countee Cullen
When I Am Asked Lisel Mueller 1996
Wings of Return Don Mee Choi 2020
Disclosure Camisha L. Jones 2020
A Ballad: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp Thomas Moore 2019
Trayvon, Redux Rita Dove 2013
Summer Lightning Molly Fisk 2019
A Young Man Jericho Brown 2018
And Now Upon My Head the Crown Phillip B. Williams 2018
Desert Pools Sara Teasdale 1915
Soldiers Washing (1927) Ricardo Pau-Llosa 2017
Heavy Hieu Minh Nguyen 2017

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