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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
The Mystic's Christmas John Greenleaf Whittier 1882
Ars Poetica (cocoons) Dana Levin 2005
The Feast of Lights Emma Lazarus 1882
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
Letter Home Natasha Trethewey 2002
My Grandmother's White Cat Maurice Kilwein Guevara 2001
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
Tender Buttons [Breakfast] Gertrude Stein 1914
Memory Anne Brontë 1920
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
The Cat and the Saxophone (2 A.M.) Langston Hughes 1926
The Kitchen Chimney Robert Frost 1923
Tasting the Earth James Oppenheim 1924
In-between the sun and moon Pádraig Ó Tuama 2019
The Grave of Keats Oscar Wilde 2018
Everyone Sang Siegfried Sassoon 1920
Deleting Names (A Decaying Sestina) Lawrence Schimel 2018
Black Swan Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2018
I Have Lived My Whole Life in a Painting Called Paradise Diane Seuss 2018
Dirt Kwame Dawes 2017

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