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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.

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When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
A Prophecy: To George Keats in America John Keats 2017
Puerto Rican Discovery #3: Not Neither Sandra María Esteves 2017
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
The Rose of Battle W. B. Yeats 1892
Each year Dora Malech 2010
In the Village Derek Walcott 2010
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Richard Lovelace 1649
A Political Litany Philip Freneau 1775
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
Four Poems for Robin Gary Snyder 1968
Super Samson Simpson Jack Prelutsky 1990
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Rain Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927

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