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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
Acrostic Lewis Carroll 1861
to my last period Lucille Clifton 1991
Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Pirate Story Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Ulalume Edgar Allan Poe 1847
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
The Ice Cream Man James Tate 2008
Recitative Hart Crane 1926
Joy Langston Hughes 1926
Gratitude List Naomi Shihab Nye 2019
The New Decade Hieu Minh Nguyen 2020
brief lesson on marriage G. C. Waldrep 2019
A Memory Lola Ridge 1918
the lost baby poem Lucille Clifton 1991
The Canterbury Tales, “The Knight’s Tale,” Book I [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
From “My Native Land,” Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto VI) Sir Walter Scott 1805
The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet 1678
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
I, New York Lam Lai 2022
My Love Must Be As Free Henry David Thoreau 1943

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