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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
Egg Aleš Šteger 2011
Alive Naomi Shihab Nye 2010
Humanimal [I want to make a dark mirror out of writing] Bhanu Kapil 2008
way [excerpts] Leslie Scalapino 1988
Untitled [You did say, need me less and I'll want you more] Marilyn Hacker 1986
Old Black Men Georgia Douglas Johnson 1922
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World Sherman Alexie 2009
My Star Robert Browning 1855
In Praise of Shame Lord Alfred Douglas 1894
Toward the Winter Solstice Timothy Steele 2006
Lights Out Edward Thomas 1917
In Vain Jack Kerouac 2006
The Routine Things Around the House Stephen Dunn 2006
History Robert Lowell 1976
The Junior High School Band Concert David Wagoner 1999
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
In life I’m no longer capable of love, Diane Seuss 2025
Cat Josephine Miles 1983
Christmas on the Border, 1929 Alberto Ríos 2024

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