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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 Hug Thom Gunn 2009
The Wild Iris (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
Ash Ode Dean Young 2008
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
The Young Man’s Song W. B. Yeats 1916
Going There Jack Gilbert 2001
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow Robert Duncan 1960
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] Walt Whitman 1891
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
Canto I Ezra Pound 1956
Do Not Run Farnaz Fatemi 2024
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
Dream On James Tate 1997
Virginia, Autumn Molly McCully Brown 2023
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
Long Trip Langston Hughes 1926
When I Have Passed Away Claude McKay 1922

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