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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
Birth Tina Chang 2012
Prayer for My Unborn Niece or Nephew Ross Gay 2011
in the decision of a beginning [3] Rusty Morrison 2011
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
Get Used To It Margaret Young 2011
Emily Dickinson to the Rescue Michael Dickman 2010
Friend Jean Valentine 2004
Portrait d'une Femme Ezra Pound 1912
Winter Sleep Edith Matilda Thomas 1896
Hallow-E'en, 1915 Winifred M. Letts 1916
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in] John Keats 1820
Epitaph on a Hare William Cowper 1783
Unfolded Out of the Folds Walt Whitman 1891
The Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
The Violet Jane Taylor 1806
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Red Slippers Amy Lowell 1916

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