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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 Question Answered William Blake 1905
Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] Charles Wright 2007
Why Regret? Galway Kinnell 2006
Monna Innominata [I wish I could remember] Christina Rossetti 1881
They that have power to hurt and will do none (Sonnet 94) William Shakespeare 1609
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
Milton [Excerpt] William Blake 1811
Letter from a Haunted Room Lisa Sewell 2006
The Dumb Soldier Robert Louis Stevenson 1885
Iris David St. John 1991
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
The Cleaving Li-Young Lee 1990
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
[A long time ago] Tao Yuanming 1918
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
Precious Kira Tucker 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
A River Is a Body Running Steven Espada Dawson 2025
Truth Victor Hugo 2025
[You were so small in my hands] Mosab Abu Toha 2025

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