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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 Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
The Song My Paddle Sings Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015 Susan Briante 2010
To Roosevelt Rubén Darío 1903
At the Fishhouses Elizabeth Bishop 1979
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Hummingbird Abecedarian Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2018
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] John Keats 1818
Life Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe 2018
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
Self-Compassion James Crews 2021
Like You Roque Dalton, Jack Hirschman 2018
The Land of Story-books Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Quilts Nikki Giovanni 2004
Social Distancing Juan Felipe Herrera 2020
The Children’s Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1860
The Soul unto itself (683) Emily Dickinson 1951
Measure Me, Sky! Leonora Speyer 1922
For everyone who tried on the slipper before Cinderella Ariana Brown 2022

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