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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
Lettuce Abraham Cowley 1711
The Request Abraham Cowley 1656
The Heart Breaking Abraham Cowley 1656
Written in Juice of Lemon Abraham Cowley 1809
The Art of Poetry [excerpt] Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux 1674
Her Body [The Signature] (audio only) Daniel Halpern 2010
How to Eat Alone (audio only) Daniel Halpern 2010
Daybreak (audio only) Daniel Halpern 2010
Fish (audio only) Daniel Halpern 2010
Dear Pretty Youth Thomas Shadwell 1674
Song of Devils Thomas Shadwell 1676
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] (audio only) Derek Walcott 1964
Aureng-Zebe, Prologue John Dryden 1675
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace (audio only) Allen Ginsberg 1994
On Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics (audio only) W. H. Auden 1964
When You’re Lost in Juarez, in the Rain, and It’s Eastertime Too (audio only) Charles Wright 1997
Magpiety (audio only) Czesław Miłosz 1958
Shooting the Dog (audio only) June Jordan 1992
Under the Viaduct, 1932 (audio only) Rita Dove 1988
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996

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