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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
Ode to Tired Bumblebees Who Fall Asleep Inside Flowers with Pollen on Their Butts Luisa A. Igloria 2021
How Music Stays in the Body Lee Herrick 2018
A Dedication Lucian B. Watkins 1903
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters Oscar Wilde 1886
Breathe. As in. (shadow) Rosamond S. King 2019
Fides, Spes Willa Cather 1903
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press (Sonnet 140) William Shakespeare 1904
Afternoons Jorge H. Aigla 2016
I Hear You Call, Pine Tree Yone Noguchi 2016
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends W. B. Yeats 1899
Prairie Spring Willa Cather 1913
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 2012
Water Ralph Waldo Emerson 1867
My/My/My Charles Bernstein 1975
Dear Tiara Sean Thomas Dougherty 2011
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
Ophelia to the Court Meghan O’Rourke 2010
Languages Carl Sandburg 1916
The Heart of the Woman W. B. Yeats 1899
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009

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