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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 a Bridge Car Elias Lieberman 1917
For Crying Out Loud Terrance Hayes 2013
The High-School Lawn Thomas Hardy 1925
The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage Wallace Stevens 1919
an endnote and love song: Erín Moure 2013
Elegy for my husband Toi Derricotte 2012
Proem Octavio Paz 1986
Again a Solstice Jennifer Chang 2010
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me Delmore Schwartz 1959
The Burning of Paper Instead of Children (audio only) Adrienne Rich 1997
Phantom Noise Brian Turner 2010
The Request Abraham Cowley 1656
The Words Under the Words Naomi Shihab Nye 1995
Metropolitan Nightmare Stephen Vincent Benét 1933
The Shark Judith Beveridge 2004
Rome Brigit Pegeen Kelly 2009
Learning to Read Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
The Uses of Poetry William Carlos Williams 1909
In California During the Gulf War Denise Levertov 1992
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] William Shakespeare 1900

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