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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 Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in] Tada Chimako 2010
Night Baseball Michael Blumenthal 1984
From “One Time” Christian Wiman 2010
Sonnet 101 [Ways apt and new to sing of love I’d find] Petrarch 1374
Come, said my Soul Walt Whitman 1874
A Short Testament Anne Porter 2006
Still Life Marianne Boruch 2008
Dangerous for Girls Connie Voisine 2008
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
I Would Like to Describe Zbigniew Herbert 2007
From the Long Sad Party Mark Strand 1973
[We waved them off long ago. So why] Dimitri Psurtsev 2026
Alliterative Autobiography [Classroom] Adam Giannelli 2026
Failed Poems Jessica Abughattas 2025
A Southern Road Helene Johnson 1926
The Elf-Man Gertrude P. McBrown 1927
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927
The Coming of Night Skipwith Cannell 1917
Clarity Vievee Francis 2024
If They Come in the Morning Ama Codjoe 2023

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