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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
Winter Colony Anne Sexton 1959
At Night Stanley Plumly 2019
Amores (I) E. E. Cummings 1923
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced (Sonnet 64) William Shakespeare 1903
Morning Song Sara Teasdale 1920
Descent of the Composer Airea D. Matthews 2016
Faithful Forest Alberto Ríos 2016
Poem by Poem Juan Felipe Herrera 2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
Action Poem Helen Hoyt 1915
By the Waters of Babylon [V. Currents] Emma Lazarus 1887
Each year Dora Malech 2010
The Moment Marie Howe 2011
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
Patience Kay Ryan 2000
La Vie C’est La Vie Jessie Redmon Fauset 1922
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026

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