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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
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
Father Edgar Guest 1919
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day Lydia Maria Child 1844
Toward the Winter Solstice Timothy Steele 2006
Starlight William Meredith 1997
Mirabeau Bridge Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks Jane Kenyon 1986
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
The Lonely Street William Carlos Williams 1921
Lenox Avenue: Midnight Langston Hughes 1926
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century Herman Melville 2019
No One Speaks of How Tendrils Feed on the Fruits Xan Forest Phillips 2019
The Show Wilfred Owen 1921
An Old Story Tracy K. Smith 2018
Mother Lola Ridge 1920
London Snow Robert Bridges 1890
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980

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