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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
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Poem for South African Women June Jordan 2017
In a Neighborhood in Los Angeles Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
This Morning I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument] John Milton 1667
Wanting to Die Anne Sexton 1981
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Sleepers Walt Whitman 1891
Peaches Adrienne Su 2015
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
Corona Paul Celan 2020
Red Brocade Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
Give Me This Ada Limón 2020
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
The Coming of Light Mark Strand 2002
Love Opened a Mortal Wound Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 1997
Omens Cecilia Llompart 2016
Approach of Winter William Carlos Williams 1921

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