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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 Gift to Sing James Weldon Johnson 2015
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280) Emily Dickinson 1951
Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene II [Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears] William Shakespeare 2017
The Last Rose of Summer Thomas Moore 1813
Beyond the Years Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns 1794
[Again and again, even though we know love’s landscape] Rainer Maria Rilke 2016
Afternoon on a Hill Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
my father moved through dooms of love E. E. Cummings 1991
The Rhodora Ralph Waldo Emerson
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
Her Kind Anne Sexton 1981
Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 1818
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear 1871
Künstlerroman Sarah Ghazal Ali 2026
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Anonymous 1611
How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best Andrea Gibson 2021
You Are Who I Love Aracelis Girmay 2017
Arbolé, Arbolé . . . Federico García Lorca 1955

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