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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
After Touching You, I Think of Narcissus Drowning Leila Chatti 2021
Poof Amy Gerstler 2019
Play the Game Jessie Pope 2018
Epistemology Catherine Barnett 2017
Phenomenal Woman (audio only) Maya Angelou 1978
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
First Light Morgan Parker 2026
Sleepless Pantoum Laurel Nakanishi 2025
Going Home the Longest Way Around Pat Schneider 2005
Dawn Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
I Can’t Breathe Pamela Sneed 2020
Poem for July 4, 1994 Sonia Sanchez 2018
Evening Star Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Sea Shell Amy Lowell 2018
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Only as the Day Is Long Dorianne Laux 2015
The Evening Star Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2015

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