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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
Langston Blue Jericho Brown 2010
Back Yard Carl Sandburg 1916
What Is Broken Is What God Blesses Jimmy Santiago Baca 2009
Black Jackets Thom Gunn 1994
Orpheus Robert Kelly 2005
Boston Aaron Smith 2005
The Hour and What Is Dead Li-Young Lee 1990
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Blues Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975
The Song in the Dream Saskia Hamilton 2001
The Suitor Jane Kenyon 1996
I Might Have Dreamed This Kirsten Dierking 2001
[In my eyes he matches the gods] Sappho 2007
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am A Poet Lynn Emanuel 1999
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket Robert Lowell 1976
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy Donald Justice 1991
The Retreat Henry Vaughan 1650
Poppy Field Victoria Chang 2026

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