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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
Dream Song 4 John Berryman 1959
Ballad of the Goodly Fere Ezra Pound 1956
Song for the Luddites Lord George Gordon Byron 1837
[The cry of the cicada] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Peace Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918
Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump David Bottoms 1995
The Bean Eaters Gwendolyn Brooks 1960
How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This Hanif Abdurraqib 2018
Do Not Speak of the Dead Cecilia Llompart 2015
The Plain Sense of Things Wallace Stevens 2011
Up-Hill Christina Rossetti 1818
Holidays Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2015
Perfect Woman William Wordsworth 1807
Gacela of the Dark Death Federico García Lorca 1973
Poem haunted by the sound of a long e Kerry Sherin Wright 2026
Fable Ralph Waldo Emerson 1899
The Sufi Ameen Rihani 1921
The Embrace Mark Doty 1998
América Richard Blanco 1998
The Dying Man and the Vulture Kahlil Gibran 2026

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