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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 Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
The Place Where in the End / We Find Our Happiness Anne Boyer 2011
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them Naomi Shihab Nye 2011
The Gaffe C. K. Williams 2010
Demeter to Persephone Alicia Ostriker 2009
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window Adelaide Crapsey 1913
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
Regarding Chainsaws Hayden Carruth 2006
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Isolation: To Marguerite Matthew Arnold 1857
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior Ben Jonson 1640
Birds Again Jim Harrison 2006
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
The Initiate Charles Simic 1990
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963

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