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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
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
The Pressure Tory Dent 1999
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
When You Are Old W. B. Yeats 1919
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] William Shakespeare 1900
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
Michael's Wine Sandra Alcosser 1998
An Old-Fashioned Song John Hollander 1993
The Haunting Alan Shapiro 2005
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
In the Greenhouse Eugenio Montale 2004
Apostrophe Angie Estes 2005
Constellations Steven Heighton 2004
The Helmet A. F. Moritz 2004

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