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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
My Lover Is a Woman Pat Parker 2016
How Doth the Little Busy Bee Isaac Watts 1715
Barbara Frietchie John Greenleaf Whittier 1894
The Myth of Innocence Louise Glück 2006
A Journey Nikki Giovanni 2016
Our Lady of the Garden Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
Praise Song for the Day Elizabeth Alexander 2009
Ode to Fat Ellen Bass 2020
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973
A Nation's Strength William Ralph Emerson 1847
Book of Nonsense, 1, 10 & 12 Edward Lear 1846
The Document Noor Hindi 2026
Negro Langston Hughes 1922
After the War: Purple Flowers Spilling from the Windows Linda Nemec Foster 2001
Gitanjali 95 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Vaccinated Jericho Brown 2021
The Sugar-Plum Tree Eugene Field 1892
What Was Told, That Jalal al-Din Rumi 2002
The Good-Morrow John Donne 1633

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