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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
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Elegy of Hands Gbenga Adesina 2025
La Guerre (II) E. E. Cummings 2025
Wedding Day / Boda Octavio Quintanilla 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
The 2022–2023 Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem Andru Defeye, Ashanti Files, B. K. Fischer, KaNikki Jakarta, Holly Karapetkova, Kealoha , Julia B. Levine , Matt Mason, Ray McNiece , Gailmarie Pahmeier, Rena Priest , Lynne Thompson, Emma Trelles , Gwen Westerman, Crystal Wilkinson 2023
Moon Tonight Gwendolyn Bennett 1926
Gitanjali 63 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Theft Esther Popel 1925
My Home Luis G. Dato 1926
Fracture Ellen Bass 2022
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
Thou Dusky Spirit Of The Wood Henry David Thoreau 1943
The Pact Victoria Redel 2022
The False Friends Dorothy Parker 1926
Poem—To the Black Beloved Langston Hughes 1926
Sea Charm Langston Hughes 1926
A Farewell Langston Hughes 1926

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