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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
Allende Phillip Lopate 2009
Beach Walk Henri Cole 2007
Angel Shark Hailey Leithauser 2004
Rome Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2009
The Shark’s Parlor James Dickey 1992
In a Breath Carl Sandburg 1916
Loam Carl Sandburg 1918
Poems Done on a Late Night Car Carl Sandburg 1916
An Excuse For Not Returning the Visit of a Friend Mei-Yao Ch'en 1971
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Blue or Green James Galvin 2009
Exile Alicia Ostriker 2009
The Body Is the Victory and the Defeat of Dreams Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke 2009
Death Barged In Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 2009
Against Elegies Marilyn Hacker 1994
Ballad of a Wedding Sir John Suckling 1646
Another Song [Are they shadows that we see?] Samuel Daniel 1610
Triad Adelaide Crapsey 1915
Embodies Jorie Graham 2008
The Anti-Suffragists Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1911

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