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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
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
The Lovers of the Poor Gwendolyn Brooks 1999
To Earthward Robert Frost 1916
Snow in October Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Inferno, Canto XXXIV Dante Alighieri 1877
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Song of Myself, 32 Walt Whitman 1891
You Can’t Have It All Barbara Ras 1997
From Blossoms Li-Young Lee 1986
Fast Break Edward Hirsch 1986
There is no frigate like a book (1263) Emily Dickinson 1890
Gitanjali 27 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Résumé Dorothy Parker 1926
In the Discount Lot Angela C. Trudell Vasquez 2021
The Dance Wendell Berry 2016
We Who Are Your Closest Friends Phillip Lopate 2009
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
Don’t Go Into the Library Alberto Ríos 2017
The Border: A Double Sonnet Alberto Ríos 2016
The Colonel Carolyn Forché 1981

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