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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
To Night Percy Bysshe Shelley 1821
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
Japanese Lullaby Eugene Field 1892
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams 1917
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one June Jordan 1989
American Sonnet (10) Wanda Coleman 1993
The Man with Night Sweats Thom Gunn 1994
Apart (Les Separes) Louis Simpson 1997
Of a Sun She Can Remember Eleanor Wilner 1998
Lament of a Man for His Son Anonymous 1925
An End Chet’la Sebree 2025
a letter to charlie parker Dior J. Stephens 2025
10,000 Acres Burned Keetje Kuipers 2025
Just the other day, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Pilgrim Heights Alvin Feinman 2016
Math Class Mary Crow 1996
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
8. bell hooks 2012
Good Night Carl Sandburg 1921

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