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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
American Syntax Ching-In Chen 2016
1905 Marilyn Nelson 2015
The Shout (audio only) Simon Armitage 2005
Before I Was a Gazan Naomi Shihab Nye 2014
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
Gradeschool’s Large Windows Thomas Lux 2012
You and Your Ilk Thomas Lux 2012
Sculptures of Virginia Woolf Michael Robins 2011
Nonsense Alphabet Edward Lear 1846
Fuel Naomi Shihab Nye 1998
The Hand Mary Ruefle 1996
Art Class James Galvin 1997
Lost Fugue for Chet Lynda Hull 2006
Apples Grace Schulman 2007
In Michael Robins's class minus one Bob Hicok 2007
Why Latin Should Still Be Taught in High School Christopher Bursk 2006
Mary's Lamb Sarah Josepha Hale 1830
Evening Walk as the School Year Starts Sydney Lea 2005
The Testing-Tree Stanley Kunitz 1971
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes 1906

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