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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
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Dream On James Tate 1997
Slow through the Dark Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
Ghazal of Oranges Jan-Henry Gray 2022
August Moonrise Sara Teasdale 1921
“‘Pages 1–4,’ an excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure” Nicole Sealey 2021
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd (Sonnet 24) William Shakespeare 1904
Owed to the Durag Joshua Bennett 2018
The Cow in Apple Time Robert Frost 2018
Climbing Amy Lowell 2018
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
Endymion Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2016
Run Every Race as if It’s Your Last Lisa Olstein 2016
Disarming of Shadow, Arming of Light Rachel Eliza Griffiths 2015
I, Being born a Woman and Distressed (Sonnet XLI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Sundown Jorie Graham 2011
Windy Nights Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
The Fisherman W. B. Yeats 1916
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
The Descent of Alette [“I walked into”] Alice Notley 1992

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