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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
Adam's Curse W. B. Yeats 1903
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918
Fairy Tale Ron Padgett 2001
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot [Shut, shut the door] Alexander Pope 1735
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] Charles Wright 2007
Iris David St. John 1991
In the Land of Words Eloise Greenfield 2004
Baby Tortoise D. H. Lawrence 1964
Tours C. D. Wright 1982
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer Angel Nafis 2026
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
The Owl Gia Anansi-Shakur 2025
I Don’t Wish to be a Vampire Elaine Equi 2025
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
The End of Girlhood Traci Brimhall 2024
Parable Nickole Brown 2024

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