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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
The Hug Thom Gunn 2009
Patience Kay Ryan 2000
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder A. E. Housman 1939
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer Mark Strand 1979
I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] Theodore Roethke 1961
Roller Coaster, Lightning Storm Wo Chan 2026
Goodness Afaa Michael Weaver 2026
A Song of Enchantment Walter de la Mare 1913
A Bookshelf Hua Xi 2025
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
From “Vita Nuova” [To every captive soul and gentle heart] Dante Alighieri 2024
Ocean Robinson Jeffers 1928
On the Wing Christina Rossetti 1904
crown Danez Smith 2017
I ask about what falls away Jason Magabo Perez 2023
Gitanjali 63 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Coyote Sees Himself in Water Tacey M. Atsitty 2022

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