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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
Elegy for my husband Toi Derricotte 2012
Poem for Jack Spicer Matthew Zapruder 2010
October 14—The Dow Closes Up 10015 Susan Briante 2010
please advise stop [my father’s dying makes stairs of every line of text seeming neither to go up or down stop] Rusty Morrison 2008
Meeting with My Father in the Orchard Homero Aridjis 2010
Long after Hopkins Brian Teare 2009
Bardo Dana Levin 2008
White Apples Donald Hall 2006
Home Burial Robert Frost 1916
My Sister’s Funeral Gerald Stern 2005
Angel Saint Lilah Hegnauer 2005
To My Brother Miguel in Memoriam César Vallejo 1993
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You Abdellatif Laâbi 2003
Interlude: Still Still Robin Behn 2001
Basket of Figs Ellen Bass 2002
In Memory of Sigmund Freud W. H. Auden 1940
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998

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