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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
Plague of Dead Sharks Alan Dugan 2001
The Ripple Effect Jamey Dunham 2009
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916
I Wonder What It Feels Like to be Drowned? Robert Graves 1918
If It All Went up in Smoke George Oppen 1978
Tender Buttons [Apple] Gertrude Stein 1914
Exile Alicia Ostriker 2009
Yellow Bowl Rachel Contreni Flynn 2009
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980
Babylon Robert Graves 1918
All That’s Left Jack Hirschman 2008
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,] Karen Volkman 2008
Glen Uig Richard Hugo 2008
Envoy Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Pockets Howard Nemerov 1975
Love Not Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 1850
Father’s Day James Tate 2008
Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets Hayden Carruth 2006
Nightsong Philip Booth 1999

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