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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
my dream about being white Lucille Clifton 1989
Portrait d'une Femme Ezra Pound 1912
To Sleep Henri Cole 2007
Beach Walk Henri Cole 2007
I am Raftery the Poet Anthony Raftery 1903
Rose Aylmer Walter Savage Landor 1806
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
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
Poems Done on a Late Night Car Carl Sandburg 1916
Vision from the Blue Plane-Window Ernesto Cardenal 2009
Dangerous Astronomy Sherman Alexie 2009
Talking About New Orleans Jayne Cortez 2009
Yellow Bowl Rachel Contreni Flynn 2009
Kelp Jeffrey Yang 2008
Against Elegies Marilyn Hacker 1994
Poetry Is a Destructive Force Wallace Stevens 1980

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