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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
Anchorage Joy Harjo 2016
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Left-Handed Sugar Jane Hirshfield 2011
The Past Louise Glück 2014
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
[I seek and desire] Sappho 1907
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
Something to Believe In Carl Phillips 2019
Dreamers Siegfried Sassoon 2018
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
When a Woman Loves a Man David Lehman 1996
In View of the Fact A. R. Ammons 2005
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Let’s love each other Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022
Self-Portrait as Lilith Elizabeth Acevedo 2023
Snail-Picking Onyedikachi Chinedu 2023

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