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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
My Father Francisco X. Alarcón 2017
To Love Impuissant Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Loss H.D. 2017
A Prayer to Talk to Animals Nickole Brown 2017
Wristwatch Ron Padgett 2017
The Battle Autumn of 1862 John Greenleaf Whittier 2017
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night Walt Whitman 2017
Christmas at the Orphanage Bill Knott 2017
Artistic Statement Denise Duhamel 2016
Wonder as Wander Sharon Olds 2012
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy Gabrielle Calvocoressi 2015
The Kindness Jan Beatty 2015
Passers-by Carl Sandburg 2015
Within the Circuit of this Plodding Life Henry David Thoreau 2014
Fruit Cocktail in Light Syrup Amy Gerstler 2014
Mountain Pines Robinson Jeffers 1904
Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline] Gertrude Stein 1914
Two Sewing Hazel Hall 1921
Faust [Go, find yourself a more obedient slave!] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1808
The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene II [When daffodils begin to peer] William Shakespeare 1623

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