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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.

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To Thomas Moore Lord George Gordon Byron 1830
Spring Storm William Carlos Williams 1921
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand Walt Whitman 1891
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
A Shropshire Lad, XIII A. E. Housman 1896
Sojourns in the Parallel World Denise Levertov 1996
Madam and Her Madam Langston Hughes 1994
The Problem Ralph Waldo Emerson 1847
Hum Ann Lauterbach 2005
Always on the Train Ruth Stone 2003
Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Billy Collins 1998
Shiloh: A Requiem Herman Melville 1866
Memory Poem Marlanda Dekine 2026
The neurologist gives us permission Seema Reza 2024
Down to My Elbows (ending on a line by Shakespeare) José Olivarez 2023
Autumn Maeng Sa-song 1965
Drops Fell on the Roof Ana Castillo 2021
The Sunset and the Purple-Flowered Tree Joshua Jennifer Espinoza 2022

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