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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
Friday’s Child (audio only) W. H. Auden 1964
First Things First (audio only) W. H. Auden 1960
In a Boat D. H. Lawrence 1916
The Shivering Beggar Robert Graves 1918
In the great snowfall before the bomb Lorine Niedecker 2002
Ramallah Bei Dao 2006
September James Armstrong 2006
Operation Memory David Lehman 1990
The Woman at the Washington Zoo Randall Jarrell 1969
Infidelity Stanley Plumly 1989
Inventing Father In Las Vegas Lynn Emanuel 1984
Fog Amy Clampitt 1997
Lullaby Eve Merriam 1964
Channel Firing Thomas Hardy 1914
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
Michael's Wine Sandra Alcosser 1998
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] William Shakespeare 1900
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell Denise Levertov 1989
St. Peter and the Angel Denise Levertov 1984
Wildwood Flower Kathryn Stripling Byer 1992

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