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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
After the Movie Marie Howe 2008
Block City Robert Louis Stevenson 1913
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
This Was Once a Love Poem Jane Hirshfield 2001
The Cowboy James Tate 2008
Love Luis G. Dato 1926
Ethel’s Sestina Patricia Smith 2018
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity John Milton 1645
The Following Dogs Billy Collins 2025
“You and I Are Disappearing” Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
If They Come For Us Fatimah Asghar 2017
Waiting for Happiness Nomi Stone 2018
The Sadness of Clothes Emily Fragos 2015
Gerontion T. S. Eliot 1920
The Kiss Sara Teasdale 1917
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
Crossroads Joyce Sutphen 1995
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
Crossing Jericho Brown 2019
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1858

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