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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
Song of the Open Road, 1 Walt Whitman 2016
Experience Carl Sandburg 2016
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1972] Robert Creeley 2016
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973] Robert Creeley 2016
For the Graduation [Bolinas School, June 11, 1971] Robert Creeley 2016
It Couldn't Be Done Edgar Guest 1919
[yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate] E. E. Cummings 1991
from Morituri Salutamus Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1900
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
From “Pieces of Kate” Eamon Grennan 2010
An Instructor’s Dream Bill Knott 2007
The Graduate Leaving College George Moses Horton 1845
Automatic Teller Machine Ben Mirov 2012
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Character of a Happy Life Sir Henry Wotton 1614
The Choir Invisible George Eliot 1884
Beyond the Years Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Today We Make the Poet's Words Our Own Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1875
Famous Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Theories of Time and Space Natasha Trethewey 2006

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