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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
Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing Toi Derricotte 2012
To Sir Henry Wotton John Donne 1625
A Short History of the Apple Dorianne Laux 2011
Knows how to forget! (433) Emily Dickinson 1890
Spring Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
sorrows Lucille Clifton 2009
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
Pillow Li-Young Lee 2001
The Gift Sara Teasdale 1907
A Shropshire Lad, XIII A. E. Housman 1896
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard Charles Wright 1995
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Crossings Ravi Shankar 2008
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026
The Outsider Sholeh Wolpé 2008
Several Tremendous Richard Siken 2025
Lament Rainer Maria Rilke 1918
Sent & scented with 10 emoticons Tan Lin 2024

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