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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 First Place (somewhere outside Eden) Kurt S. Olsson 2006
Wild Nights—Wild Nights! (249) Emily Dickinson 1861
Hazard Response Tom Clark 2006
The Rwanda Poems [excerpt] (audio only) Kamau Brathwaite 1994
Privilege of Being (audio only) Robert Hass 1988
Yonder Rae Armantrout 2007
Two, Three Rae Armantrout 2004
The Pumpkin John Greenleaf Whittier 1850
It Was Raining in Delft Peter Gizzi 2003
Chateau If Peter Gizzi 2003
A Slice of Wedding Cake (audio only) Robert Graves 1966
It’s all I have to bring today (26) Emily Dickinson 1890
To Sylvia, To Wed Robert Herrick 1648
A Hand Jane Hirshfield 2001
Waking This Morning Dreamless After Long Sleep Jane Hirshfield 2001
This Was Once a Love Poem Jane Hirshfield 2001
Oracle Tom Sleigh 2005
Space Station Tom Sleigh 2005
Mood Indigo (audio only) William Matthews 1970
[state of emergency] Barbara Jane Reyes 2005

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