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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
The Fisherman W. B. Yeats 1916
Thought as Philosophical Torment Will Alexander 2009
What the Last Evening Will Be Like Edward Hirsch 2010
A Woman Named Thucydides Sherod Santos 2010
A Throw of the Dice [excerpt] Stéphane Mallarmé 1994
Packet Jamie Ross 2010
The Present/ Lisa Robertson 2010
Ecclesiastes Khaled Mattawa 2010
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene IV [How all occasions do inform against me] William Shakespeare 1603
Imagining Starry Marie Ponsot 2009
Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy Terrance Hayes 2010
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye Gerald Stern 2010
Indigestible Phillip Lopate 2009
The Ecstasy Phillip Lopate 2009
Leaving Things Unfinished Philip Appleman 2003
Winter Sleep Edith Matilda Thomas 1896
The Soul Ira Sadoff 2003
Prayer Liz Waldner 2009
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—ay, love John Keats 1819
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990

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