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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
Basket of Figs Ellen Bass 2002
It Was Like This: You Were Happy Jane Hirshfield 2006
Story Carlie Hoffman 2026
Autumn Leaves Marilyn Chin 1994
Reading John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Aloud as a Teenager Michael Collier 2026
In a Time of Peace Ilya Kaminsky 2019
I Loved You Before I Was Born Li-Young Lee 2018
The Moose Elizabeth Bishop 1979
The Hero Siegfried Sassoon 2018
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73) William Shakespeare 1609
Borges and I Jorge Luis Borges 1999
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen 1919
Ghost House Robert Frost 1913
To make a prairie (1755) Emily Dickinson 1951
If I Must Die, Let It Be a Tale Refaat Alareer 2024
Bright Star John Keats 1838
There was a child went forth every day Walt Whitman 1900
Speaking Tree Joy Harjo 2019
The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy 1900
Home Is so Sad Philip Larkin 1988

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