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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
Punch James Ciano 2026
Dust of Snow Robert Frost 1920
Little Stones at My Window Mario Benedetti 2003
The Ivy Green Charles Dickens 1837
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
There’s a certain Slant of light (258) Emily Dickinson 1951
[American Journal] Robert Hayden 1978
My life had stood a loaded gun (143) Emily Dickinson 1929
The Waking Theodore Roethke 2017
Ode to Solitude Alexander Pope 1735
The Dream Keeper Langston Hughes 1926
The First Snowfall James Russell Lowell 1847
not an elegy for Mike Brown Danez Smith 2016
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Anonymous 1611
The Guitar Federico García Lorca 2002
Mr. Grumpledump’s Song Shel Silverstein 2004
City that Does Not Sleep Federico García Lorca 1973
The Farewell Kahlil Gibran 1923
Valentine for Ernest Mann Naomi Shihab Nye 1994

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