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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
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
This Evening Let’s Adrienne Rich 2004
The Crying of Water Arthur Symons 1901
As My English Class Debates the Legality of Gay Marriage I Daydream of the Boy I am Beginning to Fall in Love With torrin a. greathouse 2021
News Item Dorothy Parker 1926
Kumulipo Queen Liliʻuokalani 1897
23 Reasons Why Mexicanos Can Still Be Found in a Walmart Alessandra Narváez Varela 2021
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word! Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Pietà Rainer Maria Rilke 1922
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
The Grave of Keats Oscar Wilde 2018
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Four-Leaf Clover Ella Higginson 2017
The Museum of Stones Carolyn Forché 2016
Letter Beginning with Two Lines by Czesław Miłosz Matthew Olzmann 2016
Birthday Richie Hofmann 2015
Hagar in the Wilderness Tyehimba Jess 2013

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