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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
Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798
The Apparition John Donne 1633
Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All Judith Viorst 1981
First Georgic [Excerpt] Virgil 2005
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
The Storm Theodore Roethke 1975
Kaddish, Part I Allen Ginsberg 1984
[It was summer when I found you] Sappho 1907
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
Something to Believe In Carl Phillips 2019
When the Burning Begins Patricia Smith 2017
The Mind in State Fady Joudah 2016
Smell! William Carlos Williams 1917
Riverbank Blues Sterling A. Brown 1980
A Little Tooth Thomas Lux 1990
The Secret Denise Levertov 1966
Folded Luis Muñoz 2026
Ledge Kevin Young 2023
2020 Catherine Barnett 2022

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