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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
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
ghost ranch Kristin Lueke 2026
Dog Around the Block E. B. White 1930
Every Person Is an Address, Every Person Is a Calendar Megan Fernandes 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
Leaving the Psychologist: An Abecedarian Ekphrastic Grisel Y. Acosta 2025
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
For Girls Who Run Through Storms like Buffalos, Knowing It’s the Quickest Way Through Tanaya Winder 2024
17 Kinds of Hungry Adrian Matejka 2024
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
From “This Household of Earthly Nature; An Essay” Cody-Rose Clevidence 2023
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Gitanjali 4 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Lost Glimpses Luis G. Dato 1926
Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals Catherine Pierce 2020
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922

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