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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
Ascension John Donne 1610
Here Ed Roberson 2011
Translation Anne Spencer 1922
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me Delmore Schwartz 1959
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in] Tada Chimako 2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
The Enkindled Spring D. H. Lawrence 1916
The Words Under the Words Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Tender Buttons [Chicken] Gertrude Stein 1914
The City of God David Baker 2001
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
A Muse Reginald Shepherd 1995
Drawing from Life Reginald Shepherd 1996
Psalm George Oppen 1965
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] Jenny Boully 2008
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
The Hand of Glory: The Nurse's Story Richard Harris Barham 1840
Reasons To Survive November (audio only) Tony Hoagland 2006
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852

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