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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 New Year Emma Lazarus 1882
Swell Hoa Nguyen 2011
At the Equinox Arthur Sze 2011
Joy in the Woods Claude McKay 1920
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only) Adrienne Rich 1997
Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance (audio only) Elizabeth Bishop 1997
The Words Under the Words Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Tender Buttons [Chicken] Gertrude Stein 1914
Ode to Spring Frederick Seidel 2009
Essay on Criticism [But most by numbers] Alexander Pope 1711
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] Charles Wright 2007
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
The Fish Linda Bierds 1994
Poem at Thirty Michael Ryan 2004
Talking to Patrizia Kenneth Koch 1994
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
Hard Night Christian Wiman 2005
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Three Seasons Geoffrey G. O’Brien 2007

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