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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
Just One of Those Things Cole Porter 1935
One-Word Poem David R. Slavitt 2006
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Shedding Skin Harryette Mullen 1981
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
Boaz Asleep Victor Hugo 2001
Coronach Sir Walter Scott 1875
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell 2000
My First Bookstore Edward Hirsch 2025
To Mars from Arizona Alberto Ríos 2023
The Weather-Cock Points South Amy Lowell 1921
Shadow River Emily Pauline Johnson 1917
When Sue Wears Red Langston Hughes 1923
I Never Wanted to Die Dorianne Laux 2021
Venus & Serena Play Doubles on Center Court Kate Rushin 2020
[’Twas the new moon!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Song of Myself, 14 Walt Whitman 1891
Song of Myself, 8 Walt Whitman 1891
O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head (Sonnet 148) William Shakespeare 1904

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