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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
Lion Tina Chang 2022
Day-Dreams Dorothy Parker 1926
Fantasy in Purple Langston Hughes 1926
[A cloud of flowers!] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Dead Winifred M. Letts 2018
The Letters Learn to Breathe Twice Brenda Hillman 2018
The Sleeper Edgar Allan Poe 2018
Losing the 440-Yard Dash Afaa Michael Weaver 2016
The Peddler of Flowers Amy Lowell 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
The Outlet (162) Emily Dickinson 1860
The Dead Mina Loy 1920
From “The Dead” James Joyce 1914
Hallow-E'en, 1914 Winifred M. Letts 1916
In the Surgical Theatre Dana Levin 1999
Let Us Live and Love (5) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1601
Peace on Earth William Carlos Williams 1917
The Bistro Styx Rita Dove 1995
Someone Dennis O’Driscoll 2005
5 & 7 & 5 Anselm Hollo 2001

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