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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
Daybreak (audio only) Daniel Halpern 2010
Fish (audio only) Daniel Halpern 2010
Dear Pretty Youth Thomas Shadwell 1674
Song of Devils Thomas Shadwell 1676
Water-Lily Abraham Cowley 1881
Lettuce Abraham Cowley 1711
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only) Charles Wright 1997
Magpiety (audio only) Czesław Miłosz 1958
Shooting the Dog (audio only) June Jordan 1992
Under the Viaduct, 1932 (audio only) Rita Dove 1988
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Witchgrass (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
For the Anniversary of My Death (audio only) W. S. Merwin 1966
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] (audio only) Joseph Brodsky 1980
Street (audio only) George Oppen 1964
The Black Unicorn (audio only) Audre Lorde 1977
Polar Explorer (audio only) Joseph Brodsky 1996
Astraea Redux John Dryden 1660
Alexander’s Feast; or, the Power of Music John Dryden 1697

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