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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 Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Mr. Flood's Party Edwin Arlington Robinson 1921
Playgrounds Laurence Alma-Tadema 1903
Humanimal [Feral children are fatty] Bhanu Kapil 2008
Still Life Marianne Boruch 2008
“Ferrum” [Excerpt] M. NourbeSe Philip 2008
Orpheus Robert Kelly 2005
Thing Rae Armantrout 2007
Voyages II Hart Crane 1933
Like Most Revelations Richard Howard 1994
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
The Little Mute Boy Federico García Lorca 1955
The Hour and What Is Dead Li-Young Lee 1990
Come Up From the Fields Father Walt Whitman 1891
Yellow Stars and Ice Susan Stewart 1981
Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day Cynthia Zarin 2002
Homecoming Robert Lowell 1975
The Song in the Dream Saskia Hamilton 2001
[We waved them off long ago. So why] Dimitri Psurtsev 2026
Contemplations While Holding Sunchokes During a Blizzard Yesenia Montilla 2026

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