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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 Comfort of Darkness Galway Kinnell 2018
Summoning the Body that Is Mine When I Shut My Eyes Jenny Johnson 2017
Only as the Day Is Long Dorianne Laux 2015
How Do I Know When a Poem Is Finished? Naomi Shihab Nye 2008
The Chance Arthur Sze 1998
Grasshopper Ron Padgett 2011
Suspend, Singer Swan Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2004
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
Flying at Night Ted Kooser 1980
On My First Son Ben Jonson 1603
Dandelions Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1895
I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store Eve L. Ewing 2018
Calculations Brenda Cárdenas 2016
Pastoral William Carlos Williams 2016
One day is there of the series Emily Dickinson 1890
Incantation George Parsons Lathrop 1892
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens 1915
Of Many Worlds in this World Margaret Cavendish 1653
Hamlet, Act I, Scene I [Some say that ever ’gainst that season comes] William Shakespeare 1603
The Voice Thomas Hardy 1915

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