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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
Window Seat: Providence to New York City Jacqueline Osherow 2012
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer] William Shakespeare 1623
New Year’s Morning Helen Hunt Jackson 1892
Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten Péter Kántor 2010
For Some Slight I Can’t Quite Recall Ross Gay 2011
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
Holy Innocents Christina Rossetti 1881
Pastoral Jennifer Chang 2008
Secret History Charles Simic 2008
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
A True Poem Lloyd Schwartz 2000
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
Love in a Life Robert Browning 1855

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