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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
First Gestures Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1998
Mermaid Song Kim Addonizio 2000
Lucinda Matlock Edgar Lee Masters 1915
Still A. R. Ammons 1986
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
Albondigas Richard Siken 2025
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
Pestilence Philip Freneau 1795
Family Reunion Rita Dove 2007
Corpse Flower Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2018
The Wings of Daylight W. S. Merwin 2016
Central America in My Heart Oscar Gonzales 2016
My Doubt Jane Hirshfield 2016
It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free William Wordsworth 1807
That This Susan Howe 2011
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe 1862
The Abduction Stanley Kunitz 1985
One-Word Poem David R. Slavitt 2006
[I come weary,] Matsuo Bashō 1899

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