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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.

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Gulf War and Child: A Curse Annie Finch 1997
Reasons To Survive November (audio only) Tony Hoagland 2006
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
The Heart of a Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
La Vie C’est La Vie Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Dead Fires Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Sonnet 2 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Fantasy Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep August Kleinzahler 2003
Meat August Kleinzahler 2000
Green Sees Things in Waves August Kleinzahler 1998
Landing Under Water, I See Roots Annie Finch 2003
Smoke Henry David Thoreau 1843
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
Great God, I Ask Thee for No Meaner Pelf Henry David Thoreau 1842
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
To My Mother Christina Rossetti 1842

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