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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
Untitled [You mustn’t swim till you’re six weeks old] Rudyard Kipling 1901
History of Hurricanes Teresa Cader 2009
On Poet-Ape Ben Jonson 1616
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend Mei-Yao Ch'en 1971
To the Dead in the Grave-Yard Under My Window Adelaide Crapsey 1913
Babylon Robert Graves 1918
XIII César Vallejo 2007
The Visit Jason Shinder 2005
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year Maxine Kumin 2008
Restless Ghost Eric Pankey 2008
Jerusalem (audio only) James Fenton 1994
The Lady of the Manor [Next died the Lady] George Crabbe 1834
No Platonic Love William Cartwright 1651
Poet as Immortal Bird Ron Padgett 2001
Duality Tina Chang 2007
The Broken Sandal Denise Levertov 1970
Prefix: Finding the measure Robert Kelly 1995
Heat Denis Johnson 1994
Fifty-Three Eileen Myles 2007
If a Wilderness Carl Phillips 2007

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