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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
After Bombardment, Sonya Ilya Kaminsky 2011
Lament for the Makaris William Dunbar 1460
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day John Dryden 1687
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
On His Deceased Wife John Milton 1658
Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006
To Brooklyn Bridge Hart Crane 1933
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
The Letter Amy Lowell 1915
Day of the Dead Peter Balakian 2025
Sappho Sara Teasdale 1911
A Thing That Happened Matt Mason 2020
I, Lover Elsa Gidlow 1923
The Conflict of Convictions Herman Melville 1860
Turtle Soup Marilyn Chin 1994
The Candle Indoors Gerard Manley Hopkins 2016
Frederick Douglass Paul Laurence Dunbar 1895
Ballade [I die of thirst beside the fountain] François Villon 1965
True Love Robert Penn Warren 1985
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one June Jordan 1989

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