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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
Chile’s Land Gabriela Mistral 2003
Like a Strong Tree Claude McKay 1925
The Shroud of Color Countee Cullen 1925
Black Girls Rising Renée Watson 2017
My Mother, My Mother Lue Hughes 2020
The Kitchen Chimney Robert Frost 1923
My glass shall not persuade me I am old (Sonnet 22) William Shakespeare 1904
Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? (Sonnet 8) William Shakespeare 1904
An Hymn to the Evening Phillis Wheatley 1909
Hymn Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Poem in Which the Writer Sees Himself in an Old Textbook, 1943 Sam Sax 2017
Book of Statues Richie Hofmann 2016
Little Box Marilyn Nelson 2016
The Bee James Dickey 1967
Roadside Attractions with the Dogs of America Ada Limón 2012
The Dead Mina Loy 1920
America, a Prophecy, Plates 3 and 4 William Blake 1793
Patience Kay Ryan 2000
The Niagara River Kay Ryan 2005
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918

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