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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
Sea Calm Langston Hughes 1926
Promise Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem (Sonnet 54) William Shakespeare 1904
The Hill Wife Robert Frost 2018
The Ring Andrew Motion 2018
Song Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1878
On the Grasshopper and Cricket John Keats 2015
Kingdom Animalia Aracelis Girmay 2012
Thursday Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens 1915
The Anniversary John Donne 1633
Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses Alberto Ríos 1990
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
“Four planets (but no moon) will be visible to the naked eye tonight.” Ashaki M. Jackson 2026
The Weight She Gives Me 2026
Chickens Gary Jackson 2026
Christmas Greetings from a Fairy to a Child Lewis Carroll 1865
Loom Lee Trumpfheller 2024
[When night draws on, remembering keeps me wakeful] al-Khansāʾ 1922

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