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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
Eulogy Kevin Young 2011
Woods in Winter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2025
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson 1837
The Paper Nautilus Marianne Moore 1923
Nationhood Laura Da’ 2018
The Year Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1917
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene I [Over hill, over dale] William Shakespeare 1596
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
A Winter Evening Alexander Pushkin 1910
Ask Me Why I Love You Walter Everette Hawkins 1920
Making a Fist Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
It’s easy to invent a life (41) Emily Dickinson 1929
Real Estate Richard Siken 2020
Elegy Before Death Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
What the Thrush Said John Keats 2015
The Desolate Field William Carlos Williams 1921
Grief Work Natalie Diaz 2015
A Book of Music Jack Spicer 1958
Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens 1954

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