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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 Heart is the capital (138) Emily Dickinson 1929
After the Reading Tiana Clark 2023
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Poem Grace Interrupted Mikko Harvey 2019
Song of the Open Road, 5 Walt Whitman 1891
Or I shall live your epitaph to make (Sonnet 81) William Shakespeare 1904
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye (Sonnet 62) William Shakespeare 1904
On Laws Kahlil Gibran 1923
Imitation Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Self-Portrait in the Bathroom Mirror Mary Jo Bang 2017
A Woman Sleeps on an Island Marjorie Agosín 2016
January William Carlos Williams 2016
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
Delight in Disorder Robert Herrick 1648
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Can You Feel the Native American in Me M. L. Smoker 2005
To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 1933
1915 Robert Graves 1917
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025

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