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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
Slowly in Prayer Matthew Lippman 2014
My Childhood Matthew Zapruder 2013
An Exhortation Percy Bysshe Shelley 2013
Christmas Away from Home Jane Kenyon 2005
Window Seat: Providence to New York City Jacqueline Osherow 2012
Places [III. Winter Sun] Sara Teasdale 1922
Gulls William Carlos Williams 1917
Christel Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1902
Ghost Elephants Jean Valentine 2012
Swell Hoa Nguyen 2011
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only) Adrienne Rich 1997
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
About Foam Caroline Bergvall 2011
Extraordinary Rendition Paul Muldoon 2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell John Dryden 1658
The Love-Hat Relationship Aaron Belz 2010
The City of God David Baker 2001
Unfolded Out of the Folds Walt Whitman 1891
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640

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