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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
Our Lady of the Garden Pádraig Ó Tuama 2026
Nothing Wants to Suffer Danusha Laméris 2021
Dreamers Siegfried Sassoon 2018
An October Garden Christina Rossetti 2018
The Little Ghost Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Odysseus to Telemachus Joseph Brodsky 1980
Thursday William Carlos Williams 1921
À Quoi Bon Dire Charlotte Mew 1921
Iris of Life Zitkála-Šá 1898
Holding the Light Stuart Kestenbaum 2013
Wartime Christmas Joyce Kilmer 2017
9. E. E. Cummings 2010
The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” [Excerpt] Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
Black Woman Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
October Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
To the Pine Tree Jane Johnston Schoolcraft 2020
Darkness Lord George Gordon Byron 1816
I Hear an Army James Joyce 1914
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see (Sonnet 43) William Shakespeare 1904
Emergency Haying Hayden Carruth 2006

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