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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
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
A Way to Love God Robert Penn Warren 1985
Aubade: Some Peaches, After Storm Carl Phillips 2004
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
La Figlia Che Piange T. S. Eliot 1917
Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 H.D. 1982
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
Beatitude John Keene 2021
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Men Say They Know Many Things Henry David Thoreau 1943
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926

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