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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
Prayer for a Birthday Mark Wunderlich 2013
from Oracles for Youth Caroline Gilman 1852
Dove, Interrupted Lucie Brock-Broido 2013
Poetry Monica Ferrell 2013
“I’m afraid of death” Kathleen Ossip 2013
Places [III. Winter Sun] Sara Teasdale 1922
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Coda Ezra Pound 1916
Two Sewing Hazel Hall 1921
Poetry is Emilio Villa 2012
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [there is a hole at] Tada Chimako 2010
Moonlight Monologue for the New Kitten Péter Kántor 2010
My Aunts Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Poetry Anonymous Prageeta Sharma 2010
Adjectives of Order Alexandra Teague 2010
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 2010
Caesarion C. P. Cavafy 2008
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
An Ode to Himself Ben Jonson 1640

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