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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
From “Fairies” Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2013
A House Divided Kyle Dargan 2013
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
Passer Mortuus Est Edna St. Vincent Millay 1921
Story XI. The Lion who Hunted with the Wolf and the Fox Jalal al-Din Rumi 1898
Along with Youth Ernest Hemingway 1923
Poem Alice Notley 2008
‘The child is father to the man.’ Gerard Manley Hopkins 2011
Trees Need Not Walk the Earth David Rosenthal 1920
A Language Susan Stewart 2016
Old Photographs Gabeba Baderoon 2010
From “Mean Free Path” Ben Lerner 2010
The Luxury of Hesitation [excerpt from The Proof from Motion] Keith Waldrop 2009
Playgrounds Laurence Alma-Tadema 1903
A Table in the Wilderness Li-Young Lee 2001
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
You Tell Us What to Do Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1991
Lights Out Edward Thomas 1917
In Vain Jack Kerouac 2006
Visits to St. Elizabeths Elizabeth Bishop 1979

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