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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
What I Disliked about the Pleistocene Era Patty Seyburn 2009
On Seeing Larry Rivers’ Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art Frank O’Hara 1957
Pilgrimage Natasha Trethewey 2006
For the Confederate Dead Kevin Young 2007
The Present Crisis James Russell Lowell 1845
Suicide of a Moderate Dictator Elizabeth Bishop 2006
Ode to the Confederate Dead Allen Tate 1937
History Robert Lowell 1976
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
The List of Famous Hats James Tate 1986
Wildwood Flower Kathryn Stripling Byer 1992
First Probe Barry Ballard 2003
Harriet Tubman Eloise Greenfield 2003
Artificer Czesław Miłosz 1931
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915

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