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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
From “Simple Verses” José Martí 2005
On Teaching Kahlil Gibran 1923
Poem for Haruko June Jordan 2017
Mutability Percy Bysshe Shelley 1816
Give Me This Ada Limón 2020
After Love Sara Teasdale 1917
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy 1902
The Emperor of Ice-Cream Wallace Stevens 1922
Instead of Depression Andrea Gibson 2021
A Blessing for Wedding Jane Hirshfield 2011
Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II [Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world] William Shakespeare 2017
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
To John Keats, Poet. At Spring Time* Countee Cullen 1925
The Song of the Jellicles T. S. Eliot 1939
Your Catfish Friend Richard Brautigan 1989
Goodtime Jesus James Tate 1979
The Miscarriage Dorothea Lasky 2017
Ode to Fat Ellen Bass 2020
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself Wallace Stevens 1980

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