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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
Corinna's Going a-Maying Robert Herrick 1648
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992
Muse Meena Alexander 2002
The Iliad, Book XX [The Warrior’s Return] Homer 2023
Quiet Dana Isokawa 2026
Moonlight Romantica Todd Turnidge 2026
Drenched in Reflection Jzl Jmz 2025
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
Breaking Free Stuart Kestenbaum 2021
One Vote Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2020
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
The Watch Danusha Laméris 2016
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle] A. E. Housman 2017
A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim Walt Whitman 2017
The Captured Goddess Amy Lowell 2016
A Man Said to the Universe Stephen Crane 2016
The Sea of Glass Ezra Pound 1917

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