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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
ode to the puritan in me Ross Gay 2016
My Doubt Jane Hirshfield 2016
Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City Jennifer Grotz 2015
Testimony Joseph Fasano 2014
Christabel [excerpt] Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1816
The Life of Trees Dorianne Laux 2009
Art Class James Galvin 1997
Streets Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
The Prose Poem Campbell McGrath 2003
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915
1915 Robert Graves 1917
First Time Brushing Teeth Next to You Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2024
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
Summer Night Langston Hughes 1926
Big Clock Li-Young Lee 2021
A Portrait in Greys William Carlos Williams 1917
Pictures of Memory Alice Cary 1903
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904

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