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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
I Found Her Out There Thomas Hardy 1914
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur 2004
Autumn Evening David Lehman 2010
Old Photographs Gabeba Baderoon 2010
Red Lilies Barbara Guest 2008
The Triumph of Time Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Fairy Tale Ron Padgett 2001
A Table in the Wilderness Li-Young Lee 2001
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
When that I was and a little tiny boy William Shakespeare 1602
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
“[Lady of all powers]” Enheduana 1994
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Bird Tomás Q. Morín 2025

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