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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
color bleeding Evie Shockley 2019
The Thing Is Elaine Equi 2019
Pontoosuce Herman Melville 2019
The Ravaged Villa Herman Melville 1891
At a Lunar Eclipse Thomas Hardy 1919
From “Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book” Christina Rossetti 1915
From “Stray Birds” [233—237] Rabindranath Tagore 1921
Sic Vita Henry David Thoreau 2019
Aspiration Adah Isaacs Menken 1868
What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet Tso-le-oh-woh 1853
The Damned: Our Blue Yodel No. 9 Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley 2019
What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence Erika Meitner 2019
Desire [even in the time of the tyrant] Leah Umansky 2019
Sleepers Arthur Sze 2019
The Theologian’s Tale; Elizabeth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
Third Rock from the Sun Dorianne Laux 2019
Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels Vijay Seshadri 2019
While Waiting for the Bus Eliot Khalil Wilson 2019
10 AM is When You Come to Me Meg Day 2019
Portrait of Atlantis as a Broken Home Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 2019

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