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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
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
The Show Wilfred Owen 1921
The House of Hospitalities Thomas Hardy 2018
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise Diane Seuss 2018
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Modern Love: XVII George Meredith 1909
Dear P. [If you are] Victoria Chang 2017
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter] William Shakespeare 2016
Prayer at Sunrise James Weldon Johnson 2015
Mother Lola Ridge 1920
Henry V, Act V, Scene III [What's he that wishes so?] William Shakespeare 1600
Of the Surface of Things Wallace Stevens 1919
The Things Donald Hall 2011
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
To Fanny John Keats 1848
Starlight William Meredith 1997
In Jerusalem Mahmoud Darwish 2005
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
Do You Know What Today Is? Danez Smith 2026
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025

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