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The Creation by James Weldon Johnson - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Creation - And God stepped out on space,
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https://poets.org/poems?field_occasion_tid=1506
Poems | Academy of American Poets
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https://poets.org/poem/19th-amendment-my-mama
The 19th Amendment & My Mama by Mahogany L. Browne - Poems | Academy of American Poets
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https://poets.org/poem/karl-lagerfelds-line-beauty
Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty by Tommye Blount - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Karl Lagerfeld’s line of beauty - is up The Met’s stone steps,
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https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/winner/prizes/james-laughlin-award/all-words-i-can-remember-are-poems
All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems | Academy of American Poets
All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems - Michelle Peñaloza is the author of the poetry collections All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems (Persea Books, 2025),...
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https://poets.org/poem/my-mistress-eyes-are-nothing-sun-sonnet-130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William Shakespeare - Poems | Academy of...
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
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https://poets.org/poem/barberism
Barberism by Terrance Hayes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Barberism - It was light and lusterless and somehow luckless,
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1666
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/purple
Purple by Kwame Dawes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Purple - Walking, I drew my hand over the lumpy
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1341
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/halloween
Halloween by Robert Burns - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Halloween - Upon that night, when fairies light
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1151
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/song-dark-girl
Song for a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Song for a Dark Girl - Way down South in Dixie
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1281
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/my-love-fever-longing-still-sonnet-147
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147) by William Shakespeare - Poems | Academy of...
My love is as a fever, longing still (Sonnet 147) - My love is as a fever, longing still
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https://poets.org/love-poems
Love Poems | Academy of American Poets
Love Poems - Whether you’re searching for words to express a romantic love or a lovely friendship, or a love that’s painful and complex, we’ve curated a...
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https://poets.org/poem/little-boy
The Little Boy by Lola Koundakjian - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Little Boy - A neighbor’s son loudly asked, / “Is there a place on earth where it’s summer now?”
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https://poets.org/poem/living
On Living by Nâzim Hikmet - Poems | Academy of American Poets
On Living - Living is no laughing matter:
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https://poets.org/poem/waiting-room
In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop - Poems | Academy of American Poets
In the Waiting Room - In Worcester, Massachusetts,
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https://poets.org/poems?field_occasion_tid=484
Poems | Academy of American Poets
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https://poets.org/poem/waterfall-sound
Waterfall Sound by Mark Van Doren - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Waterfall Sound - In the middle of the wood it starts,
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https://poets.org/poem/morning-burned-house
Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Morning in the Burned House - In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
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https://poets.org/poem/muscular-fantasy
Muscular Fantasy by Terrance Hayes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Muscular Fantasy - I was thinking about that museum
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1276
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/christmas-bells
Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Christmas Bells - I heard the bells on Christmas Day
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https://poets.org/poem/theme-english-b
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Theme for English B - The instructor said,
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https://poets.org/poem/labor
Labor by Jericho Brown - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Labor - I spent what light Saturday sent sweating
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https://poets.org/poem/open-letter-henry
Open Letter to Henry by James Cagney - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Open Letter to Henry - It is so strange, / the photograph
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https://poets.org/poem/trim/embed
Trim by Yalie Saweda Kamara - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Trim - At the end // of the story, // we exchanged // hair. Two tiny
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1061
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1301
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/invictus
Invictus by William Ernest Henley - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Invictus - Out of the night that covers me
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https://poets.org/poem/what-seems-joy
What Seems Like Joy by Kaveh Akbar - Poems | Academy of American Poets
What Seems Like Joy - how much history is enough history before we can agree
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1311
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1236
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/they-dont-love-you-i-love-you
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You by Natalie Diaz - Poems | Academy of American Poets
They Don’t Love You Like I Love You - My mother said this to me
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https://poets.org/poem/eternity
Eternity by William Blake - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Eternity - He who binds to himself a joy
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=886
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/kraken
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Kraken - Below the thunders of the upper deep
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https://poets.org/poem/prayer-17
Prayer by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Prayer - I ask you this:
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https://poets.org/poem/twelve-forty-five
The Twelve-Forty-Five by Joyce Kilmer - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Twelve-Forty-Five - Within the Jersey City shed
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1101
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/peacemaker
The Peacemaker by Joyce Kilmer - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Peacemaker - Upon his will he binds a radiant chain,
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https://poets.org/poem/wish-book
The Wish Book by Alex Lemon - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Wish Book - The moon croons ghost
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https://poets.org/poem/arts-craft
Arts & Craft by Farid Matuk - Poems | Academy of American Poets
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=946
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=1416
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poems?field_poem_themes_target_id=856
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/american-sonnet-wanda-c
American Sonnet for Wanda C. by Terrance Hayes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
American Sonnet for Wanda C. - Who I know knows why all those lush-boned worn-out girls are
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https://poets.org/poem/little-boy/print
The Little Boy by Lola Koundakjian - Poems | Academy of American Poets
The Little Boy - A neighbor’s son loudly asked, / “Is there a place on earth where it’s summer now?”
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https://poets.org/poem/railroad-avenue
Railroad Avenue by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Railroad Avenue - Dusk dark On Railroad Avenue. Lights in the fish joints.
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https://poets.org/index%2ephp/poem/masochism-knees
Masochism of the Knees by Jackie Wang - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Masochism of the Knees - Who is the girl forced to kneel on dried chickpeas to atone for the sin of being alive?
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https://poets.org/poem/spring-thunder/embed
Spring Thunder by Mark Van Doren - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Spring Thunder - Listen. The wind is still,
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https://poets.org/poem/i-decide-tell-ghost-cowboy-my-intentions/print
I Decide to Tell Ghost Cowboy My Intentions by C. Russell Price - Poems | Academy of American Poets
I Decide to Tell Ghost Cowboy My Intentions - I’m writing / a love poem
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https://poets.org/poem/trees/print
Trees by Joyce Kilmer - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Trees - I think that I shall never see
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https://poets.org/poem/elevator-boy
Elevator Boy by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Elevator Boy - I got a job now Runnin’ an elevator In the Dennison Hotel in Jersey,
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https://poets.org/poem/sale-auction-keats-love-letters
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters by Oscar Wilde - Poems | Academy of American Poets
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters - These are the letters which Endymion wrote
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https://poets.org/poem/return-sea
Return to Sea by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Return to Sea - Today I go back to the sea
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https://poets.org/poems?page=1
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poems?field_occasion_target_id=1806
Poems | Academy of American Poets
Poems - Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert...
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https://poets.org/poem/these-hills
These Hills by J. Scott Brownlee - Poems | Academy of American Poets
These Hills - What they do not tell you about being a son / is that someday you’ll lift your mother
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https://poets.org/poem/nothing-twice
Nothing Twice by Wisława Szymborska - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Nothing Twice - Nothing can ever happen twice.
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https://poets.org/poem/dream-variations
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Dream Variations - To fling my arms wide
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https://poets.org/poem/bio-0
Bio by Kathy Evans - Poems | Academy of American Poets
Bio - Born at midnight, fish were spotted on the ceiling, and language,
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https://poets.org/text/poems-kids
Poems Kids Like | Academy of American Poets
Poems Kids Like - Read a selection of poems kids love by poets like Lewis Carroll, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and more.
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https://poets.org/text/myths-and-fairy-tales-poems-kids
Myths and Fairy Tales: Poems for Kids | Academy of American Poets
Myths and Fairy Tales: Poems for Kids - The following poems are about fables, fairy tales, folklore, legends, and myths by poets Homer, Saeed Jones, Kim...
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