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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
Late August on the Lido John Hollander 1993
Giraffes Kimiko Hahn 2013
Excelsior Walt Whitman 1891
Tang Bruce Cohen 2013
From “The Princess” [Sweet and low, sweet and low] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2013
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
Mimosa Mary Ruefle 2013
Rocket Fantastic [He’s really beautiful.] Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2013
A Sonnet from the Archive of Love’s Failures, Volumes 1-3.5 Million Anne Boyer 2013
Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner Paisley Rekdal 2013
Constancy to an Ideal Object Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1828
High Tide at Race Point Charles Bernstein 2012
The Year's Awakening Thomas Hardy 1914
Poem Joe Brainard 2012
Veterans of Foreign Wars Edward Hirsch 2012
A Poem James Schuyler 1993
Silences John Montague 2012
Glass House Heather McHugh 2012
A Fox's Tail is Called a Brush Emily Pettit 2012
You & I Belong in This Kitchen Juan Felipe Herrera 2012

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