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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
Home to Roost Kay Ryan 2005
It Was Raining in Delft Peter Gizzi 2003
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Heart's Needle W. D. Snodgrass 2006
Next Day Randall Jarrell 1969
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
Standup Sonnet Zeina Hashem Beck 2025
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
The Globe Michael Collier 2025
Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
The Death of the Old Year Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1833
Deer’s Breath of Every Color Max Early 2022
My Little Dreams Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1922
Ballade of a Great Weariness Dorothy Parker 1926
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
The Maze Mary-Kim Arnold 2021

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