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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
A Lover Amy Lowell 1917
Tempest, Act V, Scene I [Where the bee sucks, there suck I] William Shakespeare 1623
The Secrets of Poetry Linda Gregg 2009
In Passing Stanley Plumly 2000
The Passionate Freudian to His Love Dorothy Parker 1996
Winter Sleep Edith Matilda Thomas 1896
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in] John Keats 1820
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic Edward Hirsch 2003
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Trumbull Stickney 1917
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
Humanimal [Feral children are fatty] Bhanu Kapil 2008
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham 1840
Landing Under Water, I See Roots Annie Finch 2003
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007

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