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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
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] George Gordon Byron 1819
Essay on Man, Epistle II Alexander Pope 1734
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1860
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
Inferno, Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri 1877
The Descent of Alette [“A car” “awash with blood”] (audio only) Alice Notley 2007
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
Saint Francis and the Sow Galway Kinnell 2000
Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) (audio only) Alice Notley 2007
A Season in Hell Arthur Rimbaud 1991
Hellish Night Arthur Rimbaud 1991
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] Rachel Zucker 2003
Canto XIV Ezra Pound 1934
The Lost Colony (audio only) Susan Stewart 2007
Father’s Day James Tate 2008
The Hive (audio only) Ellen Bryant Voigt 2007
The Old Man at the Wheel (audio only) Frank Bidart 2007
Reunion 2005 (audio only) Rita Dove 2007
First Things at the Last Minute (audio only) Robert Hass 2007

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