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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
Hotel Ron Padgett 2016
The Mystery Paul Laurence Dunbar 2015
Reading a Science Article on the Airplane to JFK Bianca Stone 2015
How to Love January Gill O’Neil 2014
Token Loss Kay Ryan 2014
Prairie Spring Willa Cather 1913
In Summer Time Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
I think I should have loved you presently (Sonnet IX) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1922
Pear Tree H.D. 1919
The Eve of St. Agnes, XXIII, [Out went the taper as she hurried in] John Keats 1820
Six Words Lloyd Schwartz 2003
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
The Shadows of Words Edgar Silex 2004
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
Foreign Body Kimiko Hahn 2017
The Seraph and Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1869
Gitanjali 20 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
The Marathon Runner Fenton Johnson 1927
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833

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