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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 Women Who Clean Fish Erica Funkhouser 1983
Identities Daniel Hoffman 2002
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell Denise Levertov 1989
The Shooting of John Dillinger Outside the Biograph Theater, July 22, 1934 David Wagoner 1966
Weather Eve Merriam 1966
Heat H.D. 1982
The Sphinx Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841
The Pressure Tory Dent 1999
Afterwards Thomas Hardy 1917
When You Are Old W. B. Yeats 1919
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] William Shakespeare 1900
Dora Diller Jack Prelutsky 1984
Help Me to Salt, Help Me to Sorrow Judy Jordan 1999
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
Purgatory Maxine Kumin 1965
The Conjugation of the Paramecium Muriel Rukeyser 1968
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Robert Browning 1842
Michael's Wine Sandra Alcosser 1998
The White Room Charles Simic 1990

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