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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
In the Surgical Theatre Dana Levin 1999
Hades' Pitch Rita Dove 1980
The Bear Galway Kinnell 2000
After a Death Tomas Tranströmer 2004
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
And We Live On ... Refaat Alareer 2024
Nocturne Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
Aspen Tree Paul Celan 2020
This Morning Luci Tapahonso 2020
Fragments of a Lost Gnostic Poem of the 12th Century Herman Melville 2019
Sonnet to Liberty Oscar Wilde 1881
Why I Love Thee? Sadakichi Hartmann 1904
in lieu of a poem, i’d like to say Danez Smith 2019
So are you to my thoughts as food to life (Sonnet 75) William Shakespeare 1904
A Military Hospital Vera Brittain 2018
The Cow in Apple Time Robert Frost 2018
Adore Li-Young Lee 2018
Not Doing Something Wrong Isn't the Same as Doing Something Right Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017
The Inward Morning Henry David Thoreau 2016
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007

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