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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
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
The Bride of Corinth [From my grave to wander] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1853
November Night Adelaide Crapsey 1915
Theme in Yellow Carl Sandburg 1916
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works Phillis Wheatley 1773
Sonnet 2 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Christmas Trees Robert Frost 1916
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School Christopher Bursk 2006
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
Northern Pike James Wright 1992
Enter Terror Dalia Taha 2025
Cape Tenaron Katerina Iliopoulou 2025
Hansel or Gretel Natalie Shapero 2025
Afterthought Tove Ditlevsen 2025
The Indian’s Awakening Zitkála-Šá 1916

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