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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.

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Dusting Marilyn Nelson 1994
The Soldier Rupert Brooke 1914
67 Han Shan 2005
Te Deum Charles Reznikoff 1976
At Lumen-Empty Monastery, Visiting the Hermitage of Master Jung, My Departed Friend Meng Hao-jan 2004
The Cabbage Ruth Stone 2004
Elegant Shrimp in Champagne Sauce Suzette Marie Bishop 2004
Home is so Sad Philip Larkin 1988
I Belong There Mahmoud Darwish 2003
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Apricots Died Young [excerpt] Chiao Meng 1996
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land [Excerpt] Aimé Césaire 2001
Lot’s Wife Anna Akhmatova 1973
On the Disadvantages of Central Heating Amy Clampitt 1997

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