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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
Self-Portrait Ira Sadoff 2012
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (311) Emily Dickinson 1890
Story II. The Oilman and his Parrot Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Translation Anne Spencer 1922
Poem Rachel Zucker 2009
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Mother’s Day David Young 2011
A Meadow Lucie Brock-Broido 2011
Dead Horse Thomas Lux 2010
Shaving Your Father’s Face Michael Dickman 2010
Lying My Head Off Cate Marvin 2007
Winter Sleep Edith Matilda Thomas 1896
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) Marvin Bell 2009
Farewell John Clare 1920
Ode on Dictionaries Barbara Hamby 2009
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
Further Notice Philip Whalen 2008
Purgatorio, Canto X Dante Alighieri 1867

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