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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
My Wife Robert Louis Stevenson 1896
American Sonnet (35) Wanda Coleman 1998
Memories of West Street and Lepke Robert Lowell 1976
Latinx Is Emanuel Xavier 2023
Nostalgia Matthew Minicucci 2023
The Sluggard Isaac Watts 1715
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Waiting for Your Call Aria Aber 2021
A Distant Song John Gould Fletcher 1913
lake-loop Natalie Diaz 2020
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought (Sonnet 44) William Shakespeare 1904
Apologia Pro Poemate Meo Wilfred Owen 2018
breaking away to the u.s. José B. González 2017
The Fool’s Song William Carlos Williams 2017
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
The First Night Billy Collins 2008
The Song of Hiawatha [Excerpt] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1855

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