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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
Throwing Children Ross Gay 2023
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
Sci-Fi Tracy K. Smith 2011
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young Wilfred Owen 2018
Ode to a Nightingale John Keats 1820
Leda and the Swan W. B. Yeats 1923
The Red Poppy Louise Glück 1992
[To find a kiss of yours] Federico García Lorca 2017
Henry V, Act III, Scene I [Once more unto the breach, dear friends] William Shakespeare 1600
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns 1794
Persephone the Wanderer Louise Glück 2006
I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth Fatimah Asghar 2019
To a Stranger Walt Whitman 1900
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London Dylan Thomas 1952
Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges 1999
The Tradition Jericho Brown 2015
Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds Ocean Vuong 2017
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Walt Whitman 1900
Kingfisher Hai-Dang Phan 2026
In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa Ada Limón 2024

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