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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
Nature Aria Yi Lei 2018
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Love’s Lantern Joyce Kilmer 1914
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Lines on a Skull Ravi Shankar 2012
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
To Dorothy Marvin Bell 2000
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
In View of the Fact A. R. Ammons 2005
Segesta Edith Wharton 1926
Substance, Shadow, and Spirit Tao Yuanming 1918
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
Longing Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
Ode to the Sun Eloise Bibb Thompson 1900
Hallowmas Madison Julius Cawein 2017
From “Citizen,” VI [On the train the woman standing] Claudia Rankine 2014
Opal Amy Lowell 1919
The Idea of Order at Key West Wallace Stevens 1954
Sisyphus Shara Lessley 2026
Come out, come close. Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022

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