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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
Noel Anne Porter 2006
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
Fairy Tale Ron Padgett 2001
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Poet's Work Lorine Niedecker 2002
Spirit Maggie Nelson 2005
The Hour and What Is Dead Li-Young Lee 1990
Caged Bird Matthew J. Spireng 2002
Haircut Elizabeth Alexander 1996
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
The Suitor Jane Kenyon 1996
Song H.D. 1921
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
The Visitation Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
Fireflies Maya C. Popa 2026
[And I return to the field] Iain Haley Pollock 2026
Renee Nicole Good Is Murdered Cornelius Eady 2026
A Bookshelf Hua Xi 2025
Just the other day, Jalal al-Din Rumi 2022

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