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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
Song on May Morning John Milton 1645
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
Restless Ghost Eric Pankey 2008
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth Jeffrey McDaniel 2008
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior Ben Jonson 1640
Country Fair Charles Simic 1991
The Ruined Maid Thomas Hardy 1901
Portrait in Georgia Jean Toomer 1923
Searchers D. Nurkse 2005
Medusa Frieda Hughes 2003
The Congressional Library [excerpt] Amy Lowell 1955
The Teacher Hilarie Jones 2002
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
In Memory of M. B. Anna Akhmatova 1973
Cutty Sark Hart Crane 1930
Ex Nothing Cecilia Vicuña 2026
My mother looks Manuel Iris 2025
In Absence—This Unknowing Bianca Stone 2022
The Alchemist Louise Bogan 1929
Forgetting Joy Ladin 2025

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