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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
I Would Like to Describe Zbigniew Herbert 2007
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
Poem for the Dead (Including My Mom) Nicole Tallman 2023
Critic Leonard Bacon 1930
Control Charif Shanahan 2023
Gaza I Sara Abou Rashed 2025
A Mystery James Ephraim McGirt 1906
Interlude Daniel Moysaenko 2025
Fog Emma Lazarus 1889
New Orleans Love Poem Nicole Cooley 2023
Go Youth James Tate 1994
less hope Danez Smith 2022
Gitanjali 9 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
To a Daisy Alice Meynell 1875
An Act of Love Tommye Blount 2023
Grandfather A. Van Jordan 2022
Canadian Born Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
In Public John Wieners 2015

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