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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
Autumn Leaves Marilyn Chin 1994
Ulysses [excerpt] James Joyce 1922
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
Song [When I am dead, my dearest] Christina Rossetti 1862
Give Me Your Hand Gabriela Mistral 2003
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) William Shakespeare 1609
Basket of Figs Ellen Bass 2002
The Moose Elizabeth Bishop 1979
Ghost House Robert Frost 1913
Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges 1999
Bright Star John Keats 1838
My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
Kingfisher Hai-Dang Phan 2026
Speaking Tree Joy Harjo 2019
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
If I Must Die, Let It Be a Tale Refaat Alareer 2024
I Loved You Before I Was Born Li-Young Lee 2018
To make a prairie (1755) Emily Dickinson 1951
Home Is so Sad Philip Larkin 1988
Duplex Jericho Brown 2019

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