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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
it won’t be a bullet Danez Smith 2017
To My Mother Lucretia Maria Davidson 1841
Darwinist Logic on Unrequited Love Katie Willingham 2017
Gabriel Adrienne Rich 2016
Because it looked hotter that way Camille T. Dungy 2014
On the Road to the Sea Charlotte Mew 1914
The Banjo Player Fenton Johnson 1922
here rests Lucille Clifton 1991
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Since I’m Condemned Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
The Present/ Lisa Robertson 2010
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
The Fist Derek Walcott 1986
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
No, Love Is Not Dead Robert Desnos 1991
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
To a Waterfowl William Cullen Bryant 1818

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