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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.

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A Violin at Dusk Lizette Woodworth Reese 1920
A House Divided Kyle Dargan 2013
I Found Her Out There Thomas Hardy 1914
Antique Arthur Rimbaud 2011
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green] Henry Howard 1557
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
Calamus [In Paths Untrodden] Walt Whitman 1891
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
As a Kid I Was Told, “Don’t Step on a Crack or You’ll Break Your Momma’s Back” Karla Cordero 2025
Black Earth Marianne Moore 1921
Emancipation Paul Laurence Dunbar 1890
The Cataclysm Ameen Rihani 1921
The Pact Victoria Redel 2022
[The whale already] Kimiko Hahn 2022
Appalling Heart Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1920

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