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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
Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen 1920
In Flanders Fields John McCrae 1915
The Soldier Rupert Brooke 1914
Drummer Hodge Thomas Hardy 2017
“You and I Are Disappearing” Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
Ode to the Confederate Dead Allen Tate 1937
For the Fallen Laurence Binyon 1914
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
Ode for Memorial Day Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
The Watchers John Greenleaf Whittier 2017
Rouge Bouquet Joyce Kilmer 2018
The Spires of Oxford Winifred M. Letts 2018
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Walt Whitman 2017
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
Words Jane Hirshfield 2020
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top Rita Dove 2017

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