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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
Summer Song William Carlos Williams 1917
A Shropshire Lad, II A. E. Housman 1896
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder A. E. Housman 1939
The Wishing Tree Kathleen Jamie 2007
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
Telling the Bees Deborah Digges 2004
I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra Ishmael Reed 1989
In a Country Larry Levis 1977
[Watch any day his nonchalant pauses] W. H. Auden 1930
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
Peter Quince at the Clavier Wallace Stevens 1923
[O Málik! I pray thee go for the wine full early] Abu Nuwas 1922
All Souls’ Day in a German Town Margaret Fairless Barber 1903
Everything is Exactly the Same as it Was the Day Before Ina Cariño 2023
Coyote Sees Himself in Water Tacey M. Atsitty 2022
Fighting Words Dorothy Parker 1926
Looking at the Moon After Rain Li Bai 1921
For a Lady I Know Countee Cullen 1925
My Father’s Accent Kaveh Akbar 2021
In Envy of Cows Joseph Auslander 1923

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