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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
Moonlight Romantica Todd Turnidge 2026
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922
Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem Helene Johnson 1922
My Mountains Gabriela Mistral 2003
The Humble-Bee Ralph Waldo Emerson
One Vote Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2020
The Flower at My Window Lucian B. Watkins 1903
The little love-god lying once asleep (Sonnet 154) William Shakespeare 1904
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
[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
A Man Said to the Universe Stephen Crane 2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene II [Nay, do not think I flatter] William Shakespeare 2016
Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid Diane Seuss 2015
Black Glass Soliloquy Ben Mirov 2012
Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay 2012
Thursday Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927

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