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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
Crossing Jericho Brown 2019
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
The City Limits A. R. Ammons 1986
Red Delicious Jerome Ellison Murphy 2022
Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916
Persephone, Falling Rita Dove 1980
My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1858
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity John Milton 1645
Theodore the Poet Edgar Lee Masters 1915
February Tamiko Beyer 2022
Waiting for Happiness Nomi Stone 2018
Beverly Hills, Chicago Gwendolyn Brooks 2017
The Desolate Field William Carlos Williams 1921
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion] Petrarch 2004
Tell Me Something Good Ocean Vuong 2015
The Sea of Glass Ezra Pound 1917
Lament Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
poem to my uterus Lucille Clifton 1991
The Woman and the Flame Aimé Césaire 2011

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