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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 Wild Iris (audio only) Louise Glück 1992
Crossing the Bar Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1889
What Came to Me Jane Kenyon 2006
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
I heard a Fly buzz (465) Emily Dickinson 1998
Age and Death Emma Lazarus 1888
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
Go Down, Death James Weldon Johnson 1927
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You Abdellatif Laâbi 2003
Question May Swenson 1978
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Daddy Sylvia Plath 1981
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens 1922
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896

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