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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 Ghazal of What Hurt Peter Cole 2008
It is the time of rain and snow Izumi Shikibu 1955
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
From A. Van Jordan 2004
Why Is the Color of Snow? Brenda Shaughnessy 2008
Day Job and Night Job Andrew Hudgins 2003
Language W. S. Merwin 2007
Like Brooms of Steel (1252) Emily Dickinson 1890
Karma Edwin Arlington Robinson 1925
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
Country Fair Charles Simic 1991
In the Greenhouse Eugenio Montale 2004
Self-Portrait as Miranda Geri Doran 2005
The Odyssey, Book XXIII [The Trunk of the Olive Tree] Homer 1961
The Family Photograph Vona Groarke 2004
Die Muhle Brennt—Richard Richard Matthews 2002
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Metaphors of a Magnifico Wallace Stevens 1954

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