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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 Visitors of Night Frank Stanford 2016
Compass Joan Naviyuk Kane 2015
Swimming Carl Phillips 2015
Sometimes the Way It Rains Reminds Me of You Colleen J. McElroy 2015
Sonnet Alice Dunbar-Nelson 1922
Another Poem for Mothers Erin Belieu 2014
Egg Aleš Šteger 2011
The Present/ Lisa Robertson 2010
To Rosemounde Geoffrey Chaucer 1400
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths Philip James Bailey 1884
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Man and Camel Mark Strand 2006
Practice Ellen Bryant Voigt 2002
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
Gooseberry Season Simon Armitage 2005
Loading a Boar David Lee 2004
The Slave’s Complaint George Moses Horton 1829
On Translation Mónica de la Torre 2002
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
[And I return to the field] Iain Haley Pollock 2026

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