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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
I saw a man pursuing the horizon Stephen Crane 2013
To Rosa Abraham Lincoln 1858
Thanatopsis William Cullen Bryant 1817
My life has been the poem I would have writ Henry David Thoreau 1849
Exact Rae Armantrout 2011
Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Noah Eli Gordon 2010
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
I Have News for You Tony Hoagland 2010
the gate Tadeusz Różewicz 2010
Barter Sara Teasdale 1917
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
Song of Myself, 3 Walt Whitman 1891
Nothing Twice Wisława Szymborska 1998
I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl (443) Emily Dickinson 1890
Daphnis and Chloe Haniel Long 1977
My life closed twice before its close (96) Emily Dickinson 1890
Three Airs for the Beggar's Opera, Air XXII John Gay 1728
O, Gather Me the Rose William Ernest Henley 1874
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] Samuel Daniel 1610
Live Blindly and Upon the Hour Trumbull Stickney 1917

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