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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
One Perfect Rose Dorothy Parker 1926
Mother Country Richard Blanco 2019
from The Vision of Sir Launfal James Russell Lowell 1848
I look at the world Langston Hughes 2009
Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood 1843
Nayika at the crawfish boil Kiran Bath 2026
After the Work Is Done Deahna Fumarol 2026
Summer Stars Carl Sandburg 1920
Trim Yalie Saweda Kamara 2025
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
Home Is so Sad Philip Larkin 1988
Song of Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone Rainer Maria Rilke 2001
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Chen Chen 2017
Chicago Carl Sandburg 1914
Preludes T. S. Eliot 1920
War Poem Sara Deniz Akant 2026
Mary's Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale 1830
To An Athlete Dying Young A. E. Housman 1896
[Like a white stone] Anna Akhmatova 1921

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