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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
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy 1902
[Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs] Pablo Neruda 2016
Passage to India Walt Whitman 1891
We Lived Happily During the War Ilya Kaminsky 2019
The Song of Despair Pablo Neruda 1969
Lover Ada Limón 2021
Song for a Dark Girl Langston Hughes 1927
October Sonnet Adrian Matejka 2023
Leap Year Poem Mother Goose 1719
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Wilfred Owen 2018
The Falling of the Leaves W. B. Yeats 2017
History Linda Hogan 2016
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me] William Shakespeare 1603
The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert W. Service 1907
Orchids Are Sprouting From the Floorboards Kaveh Akbar 2017
To Roosevelt Rubén Darío 1903
Miscarriage Gregory Fraser 2026

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