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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 mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
Facing It Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
Adolescence II Rita Dove 1993
Passing Carl Phillips 1992
Old English riddle Anonymous 1000
The Wolf's Postscript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali 1987
The Good Gray Wolf Martha Collins 1999
Syringa John Ashbery 1975
Medusa Patricia Smith 1992
Daughters, 1900 Marilyn Nelson 1990
Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison Nâzim Hikmet 1994
Sonnet Substantially Like the Words of F Rodriguez One Position Ahead of Me on the Unemployment Line Jack Agüeros 1991
Now Winter Nights Enlarge Thomas Campion 1617
My Picture Left in Scotland Ben Jonson 1640
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) William Shakespeare 1609
Sometimes with One I Love Walt Whitman 2013
To a Poor Old Woman William Carlos Williams 1962
To Earthward Robert Frost 1916
Little Lion Face May Swenson 1987
On the Skeleton of a Hound James Wright 1992

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