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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
Ground Birds in Open Country Stanley Plumly 2012
The Maenads Ursula K. Le Guin 2012
Joy in the Woods Claude McKay 1920
The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me Delmore Schwartz 1959
On Summer George Moses Horton 1837
A Poem Robert Creeley 2006
The Sympathies of the Long Married Robert Bly 2011
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy 2011
Ne Plus Ultra Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1834
On Snow Jonathan Swift 1857
Wild Gratitude Edward Hirsch 1986
Balance Adam Zagajewski 2008
Black Petal Li-Young Lee 2001
If a Wilderness Carl Phillips 2007
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
Safe Sex Donald Hall 2006
The Midnight Court [Twas my custom to stroll] Brian Merriman 2006
California Plush Frank Bidart 1973
Venus and Adonis [But, lo! from forth a copse] William Shakespeare 1900
why must itself up every of a park E. E. Cummings 1923

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