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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
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
Requiescat Matthew Arnold 1853
When I consider every thing that grows (Sonnet 15) William Shakespeare 1609
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
The Valley of Unrest Edgar Allan Poe 1831
All That’s Left Jack Hirschman 2008
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] George Gordon Byron 1819
Father’s Day James Tate 2008
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell Denise Levertov 1989
Water Music Robert Creeley 1983
Spenser’s Ireland Marianne Moore 1961
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Shirt Robert Pinsky 1990
27,000 Miles Albert Goldbarth 2007
A Family History Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
Before the Snake Nathaniel Tarn 2002
Coming Close Philip Levine 1991
Star Quilt Roberta Hill Whiteman 1984

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