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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
Sunset Effie Lee Newsome 1923
Serepta Mason Edgar Lee Masters 1915
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Songs (VI) E. E. Cummings 1925
At the Door Eugene Field 1889
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147) William Shakespeare 1904
The Cabbage Butterfly Minnie Bruce Pratt 2018
Questions Rachel Richardson 2018
Make Me Human or Give Me Death May Yang 2017
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
Ritual for Ash Cindy Williams Gutiérrez 2017
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs. Wallace Stevens 2017
You Can't Put Muhammad Ali in a Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
Praxis Wendy Xu 2016
United Naomi Shihab Nye 2016
Chess Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2015
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
Tang Bruce Cohen 2013
Spent Mark Doty 2013
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830

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