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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
A Prayer for my Daughter W. B. Yeats 1921
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas 1937
The Myth of Innocence Louise Glück 2006
Circus Nerves & Worries Kenward Elmslie 1975
Return Sterling A. Brown 1927
Remembering Our First Parties Erin Rose Coffin 2023
Chorus Peter Streckfus 2022
A Tale Louise Bogan 1923
Gitanjali 60 Rabindranath Tagore 1912
Constancy Elsa Gidlow 1923
Ballade at Thirty-five Dorothy Parker 1926
Homing Swallows Claude McKay 1922
Kiss Ellen Bass 2020
I Rest My Case Honey Bell-Bey 2019
The Debtor Lucian B. Watkins 1903
You Rode a Loop Rosa Alcalá 2020
The Miracle Fenton Johnson 1916
An Epitaph for Little Children Margaret Widdemer 1915
Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty Safiya Sinclair 2020
Boy Fatimah Asghar 2018

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