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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
All She Wrote Harryette Mullen 1997
The Concrete River Luis J. Rodríguez 1990
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
The Truth the Dead Know Anne Sexton 1981
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” Robert Lowell 1976
A Winter Without Snow J. D. McClatchy 1980
Ghazal of the Better-Unbegun Heather McHugh 1999
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
America Herman Melville 1866
The Armadillo Elizabeth Bishop 1979
On a Line from Valery (The Gulf War) Carolyn Kizer 1996
My Philosophy of Life John Ashbery 1995
The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy 1915
The Leaving Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
Buying Stock Denise Duhamel 1993
The Visitation Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
The Whistle Yusef Komunyakaa 1992
Rent Jane Cooper 1993
The Subalterns Thomas Hardy 1902
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy Donald Justice 1991

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