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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 Black Santa Allison Joseph 2017
Thanks Yusef Komunyakaa 2016
The Tower W. B. Yeats 1928
Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens 1954
Returning to Fields and Gardens (I) Tao Yuanming 2024
The Bridge Elisa Gabbert 2025
I Am a Black Woman Mari Evans 2007
Apparition Stéphane Mallarmé 1920
Shadows Langston Hughes 1923
I Want the Wide American Earth Carlos Bulosan 1950
The Sparrow Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud? William Knox 1876
Marriage William Carlos Williams 1916
Left Nikky Finney 2011
To a Skylark Percy Bysshe Shelley 1820
Personal Poem Frank O’Hara 1964
In View of the Fact A. R. Ammons 2005
To My Daughter’s Dead Name Lance Larsen 2025
Outcast Claude McKay 1922
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019

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