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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
Go Kathleen Ossip 2016
The Dreams of the Dreamer Georgia Douglas Johnson 1918
Wonder as Wander Sharon Olds 2012
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth (Sonnet 146) William Shakespeare 2016
Work Sally Bliumis-Dunn 2015
The Praying Tree Melinda Palacio 2015
Love’s Body Jonathan Wells 2015
Names Fady Joudah 2014
Lion Felling a Bull Robyn Schiff 2014
Parties: A Hymn of Hate Dorothy Parker 1916
To Keep the Memory of Charlotte Forten Grimké Angelina Weld Grimké 1914
From “Please Bury Me in This” [Maybe my arms lifted ...] Allison Benis White 2013
Aunt Helen T. S. Eliot 1915
Variation on a Theme W. S. Merwin 2013
Sappho and Phaon: Sonnet III Mary Robinson 1796
The Wound-Dresser Walt Whitman 1891
Self-Portrait Ira Sadoff 2012
At the Equinox Arthur Sze 2011
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the round spoon] Tada Chimako 2010
Civilization Carl Phillips 2011

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