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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
Meditations in an Emergency Frank O’Hara 1957
Out, Out– Robert Frost 1916
Footfalls Sharon Creech 2004
How I Became a Madman (Prologue) Kahlil Gibran 1918
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922
Skunk Hour Robert Lowell 1976
The Goops Gelett Burgess 1903
Kid, this is October, Jeffrey Bean 2018
Thanksgiving Turkey George Parsons Lathrop 2017
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
Gitanjali 11 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes 1833
Forever Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
These Hands, If Not Gods Natalie Diaz 2013
It’s all I have to bring today (26) Emily Dickinson 1890
The courage that my mother had Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning John Donne 1633
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
The Phantoms for Which Clothes Are Designed Chase Twichell 2017
Light breaks where no sun shines Dylan Thomas 1937

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